17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Mike Markley says:
The 129 digit key was broken in 8 calendar months and not 8 CPU months, correct? If so then for most purposes a 129 digit key is more than adequate. If you are faxing a contract to someone then if the deal isn't signed in 8 months the odds are that information about it will leak from a different source than your fax.
This isn't true. If you are signing the contract digitally, for instance, you would want to be sure that no one could forge your signature to change the terms after the fact -- a few months isn't enough for such purposes, only something that will last for fifteen or twenty years is okay. Perry