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Re: 2^25 Crays a Year to Break STT
don't you love how the media gets the story straight?
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From: Bill Stewart <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 25 Crays a Year to Break STT
Date: Thursday, September 28, 1995 10:33AM
> Microsoft said its Secure Transaction Technology (STT), was
> designed to provide a much higher level of security for
> credit card transactions on the Internet. Netscape's
> general purpose encryption system uses a 40 or 128-bit
> electronic "key", while STT will use 2,000-bit keys.
Sigh. Apples and oranges, and they know it.
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> Although no encryption system was totally secure, Mr Dent
> estimated it would take "25 Cray supercomputers a year" to
> break the STT codes.
So how much work can 25 Crays do in a year? Crack single-DES?
Maybe RC4/64?
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