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Re: Unofficial Release




Roger Bryner says:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > And you know, who knows? Maybe they are in fact concealing more
> > computers than you could build with all the silicon in the solar
> > system in Fort Meade. Those feds, they are superhuman, you know?
> There are two curves you have to worry about, one is computation, the 
> other is advances in mathmatics.

The conversation was predicated on the notion that no major
breakthrough in factoring has occured, as I explicitly said. A minor
breakthrough, like an improvement of a constant factor of a million or
so, isn't going to let people break 2000 bit keys.

Perry