17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Roger Bryner says:
On Wed, 22 Jun 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
And you know, who knows? Maybe they are in fact concealing more computers than you could build with all the silicon in the solar system in Fort Meade. Those feds, they are superhuman, you know? There are two curves you have to worry about, one is computation, the other is advances in mathmatics.
The conversation was predicated on the notion that no major breakthrough in factoring has occured, as I explicitly said. A minor breakthrough, like an improvement of a constant factor of a million or so, isn't going to let people break 2000 bit keys. Perry