Herb Sutter said:
In answer to a question from the floor, Ozzie did say that yes, the agreement reached with the NSA was scalable -- IOW, that you could use 128-bit keys and give the government 88 of them, instead of 64-and-give-24 -- but in retrospect I wonder whether keeping Notes at 64 bits was a condition of the NSA deal. I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but considering that Ray was clearly aware that the 64-bitness was going to raise eyebrows and still somehow didn't get around to simply strengthening it... well, it makes you wonder.
Not really. I think the governments position has been 64 bits with escrow. I doubt that they'd actually ship a 128 bit version with 88 bits escrowed, as I believe the government has stated in the past that they don't want to give away the store even with escrow. -- Kevin L. Prigge |"Have you ever gotten tired of hearing those UofM Central Computing | ridiculous AT&T commercials claiming credit email: klp@tc.umn.edu | for things that don't even exist yet? 010010011101011001100010| You will." -Emmanuel Goldstein