WorldNetDaily on crypto, Paul Zimmermann, 116-digit keys
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24603 E-mail encryption made easy 2001-09-21 05:36:13 E-mail encryption made easy ... information. It is perhaps worth noting that while there was some discussion of pursuing PGP's creator, Paul Zimmerman, for the violation of U.S. export controls a few years ago, there is no law banning the personal use of encryption software. ... The question of PGP's security is the occasion for much debate among the sort of folks who have pale green "monitor tans" and a virulent passion for Gillian Anderson. It is an interesting world full of real, if esoteric, concerns about "backdoors," Van Eck freaking and brute force attacks. ... ... time and expense needed to crack your key. Given that it took 400 MIPS-years by an array of parallel processors to crack a 116-digit key, the amount of computing power required to break a 1024-bit key appears to be tremendous, even more so for the 4096-bit protection provided by PGP. ...
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