Re: Key length security (calculations!)

At 03:28 AM 7/15/94 EDT, solman@MIT.EDU wrote:

The bottom line is that NSA has demonstrated that they can outperform academia without public reviews of their method (LEAFs aside for the moment [government agencies are after all required to do several stupid things each year])

That is, they were able to out-perform the private sector when there was no economic value in cryptography so no one (save them) had any incentive to practice it. Since crypto gained enormous economic value (for compression and general bit manipulation as well as system security) they are unlikely to be able to keep up. Note the Market vs the Feds in electronics. They tend to buy most of their stuff from us these days. DCF