for cypherpunks@toad.com From: Jeff Gostin<jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us> Reply-To: jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us Subject:Re: How long is reasonable? To: cypherpunks@toad.com Message-ID: <940706151140E9Djgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 15:11:40 EST X-Original-Article-From: Mike Markley <mmarkley@microsoft.com> X-Mailer: winn v1.00a Mike Markley <mmarkley@microsoft.com> writes:
can't be broken in a reasonable amount of time. I'm interested in what most of the people on this list would consider a reasonable amount of time though. For me, "reasonable amount of time" translates into "the minimum amount of time neccessary to elapse before the information gained loses its sensitive or critical value." In other words, if I encrypted some rather embarrassing letters that I wanted to keep, but also wanted to keep safe, the "reasonable amount of time" would be as long as it takes for me to die, plus one day. If it's a "state secret", it might be 100 years.
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