At 08:35 AM 3/1/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote:
Today, each person generates their own PGP key. While it is unlikely that any two will match, it is likely that at some point some two will match (see matching birthdays in a bar - number is less than you would think).
If if we colonized every planet in the galaxy, and every planet had a trillion people, and every single person on every planet generated a billion keys a second for a billion billion years, not one pair would match, assuming they were generated from truly random seeds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com