
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
3:17 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Adam Back wrote:
(Bearing in mind the reader in most cases hasn't grasped the difference between public key crypto and symmetric key, and is comparing 1024 bit keys to 56 bit keys and probably thinks that it is 1024/56 times harder.)
Well i guess i'll look stupid for asking but someone has to but what is the diffrence ?? I dont know either, i'm on this list to learn things like this. I'm still very new to all of this. I was aware that they weren't 1024/56 times harder though. jason =8-]