[sorry Perry] On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, David Sternlight wrote:
So is your comment. What was broken was not public key, but a particular key length (and by implication shorter ones). You can do that with just about any system, even a one-time pad, by brute force, but it won't buy you
Really? The only way I know of forcing a one-time pad is to use a hardware QM-based random number generator to generate every possible decrypt, thus creating a number of universes equal to the number of possible keys. Since you can't tell if you're universe is the right one, one should always verify the information obtained against a second source. IANAL, so I can't say if such a decrypt would count as probably cause. Simon --- Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. And after all | Email address remains unchanged You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet.........