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Re: "Experts slam PGP encryption"
e$pam wrote:
> Forwarded by Robert Hettinga
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:19:59 -0500
> From: [email protected] (Ed Stone) (by way of [email protected]
> (Robert A. Hettinga))
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: "Experts slam PGP encryption"
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> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> says...
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >
> > In article <[email protected]>, josmo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > feel rsa is built more for speed. the feds can brute a 128 bit key
> > > whenever they want too. the real delema is that if you make it bigger it
> >
> > Unless IDEA has pathways that make attacks significantly faster than
> > brute force possible (and I mean _significantly_, not a few bits) then I
> > serious doubt anyone can brute force a 128 bit key. You aren't making
> > the mistake of believing that a 128 bit key is 64 times harder to break
> > than a 64 bit key, are you?
> >
> > ian
>
> If you try *100 trillion* keys per second, and find the key half way
> through the keyspace, a 128-bit key will be found in only 5.4 x 10^14
> centuries!
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