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Re: Predicting cipher life / NSA rigged DES? ...
> I had tended to not take too seriously the posts of someone who signs himself
> as "Uhh...this is Joe,"
That was probably a good idea.
> but the reasoning he displays below makes me take him more seriously:
Ooh, bad move! :)
> ...the amount of time should be replaced by "effort expended."
That was what I meant, although my wording of it was sort of ambiguous; "years
of analysis," "analysis-hours," etc. refer to the time the cryptographers
actually spent on studying the cipher, not the time elapsed since the cipher's
release.
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> --Tim May
>
>
> The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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> Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
> ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
> Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments.
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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