27 Oct
2003
27 Oct
'03
6:08 p.m.
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:01:50 -0600 (CST) "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> wrote:
Am I the only one here who finds this "requirement" excessive? My god: are we looking to keep these secrets for 50 years, or 50000 (or more) years?
Or am I missing something?
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org
"Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko
50 years does sound like a reasonable figure for computing power and the ability to brute force a crack on anything encrypted. If one is lucky the actual time limit will be around 500 years , but with computing power increasing , its possible that what ever was encrypted 10 years ago , is now in danger of being cracked. And for some things ,there is no statute of limitations. Declan O'Reilly