Re: Unofficial Resease

[trollins@debbie.telos.com (Tom Rollins)]

Perry says:
>Fine. However, you are, you realize, a fool. There is no point in
>building a house with 3 foot thick steel doors and walls made from
>paper. After 2^10 or 2^11 bits or so the key is no longer the weak
>link, and is not what people will attack since it no longer has a
>reasonable possibility of success. You are entitled to your opinions,
>of course.

Excuse me, What is your point.
My 4096-bit rsa key is (last I looked 4096 == 2^12)
over your 2^10 or 2^11 estimate and thus NOT the weak link.
Why would you want the rsa key to BE the weak link?
After all the rsa key will decrypt all your messages
and the IDEA key is for (1) message only.

				-tom