17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 12:42:15PM -0800, Tim May wrote: [...]
And using longer keys is "easy" to do. Breaking longer keys is "hard." Strong crypto wins out very quickly.
This is why there is no "middle ground" on crypto...it's either strong or its weak, with nothing in between.
An oversimplification. You, of course, know better. A crypto system has to be considered as a whole (rubber hoses, key management, etc). That's where the "in between" comes from, and will continue to come from, regardless of the strength of the algorithms. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html