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Re: pgp broken?
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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, greg pitz wrote:
> In speaking with an associate, he mentioned in passing that PGP had
> been broken a few weeks ago in San Diego by the DoD using a Cray.
> All questioning about said subject was ended immediately as he felt
> that he might have said too much how it was. Was PGP "broken"?
>
PGP has already been "broken" -- the 384-bit Blacknet key was factored.
Just because the government may be able to factor a 512-bit key, it does not
mean that they can break 2048, 1024, or even a 709-bit key. If this person
was telling the truth, the government probably only broke a small key.
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59jYpfbYE8o=
=ReUZ
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