Re: Crypto and new computing strategies

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 1994, Jim choate wrote:

> it. First, historicaly (and emotionaly on my part) I have a hard time taking the
> premise that the status quo will stay the status quo. I have this belief that
> some bright person is going to come along and blow all our pipe dreams away.

However faster cracking means faster encrypting (using larger keys) as
well.  I don't think the US government can maintain a tech edge over the
market for long in any case.  The Soviet government couldn't.

DCF