Re: NSA leak (fwd)
Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd) Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
2. Their cracker changes the state of 2^128 bits in 33 minutes. This is being extremely generous;
(Actually, for all I know, terawatt power sources may exist; that's out of my field. Please let me know if this is the case.
Not within a few million miles of here, and they'd be hard to conceal. A few GW is fairly easy, by several methods. Terrestrial fusion is not a serious contender yet, and I doubt it will be for a long time.
3. They have a quantum computer, or some alien technology, or something else we know pretty much nothing about.
Given this choice, I would vote for #3. :-) However, I'd go out on a limb and say that the NSA guy was simply lying (or that the anecdote itself is mistaken).
I agree. The 'something else' could be info about RNG flaws I suppose. This guy couldn't be thinking about DES could he ?
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On Sun, Jul 27, 1997 at 11:46:00PM -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd)
Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
2. Their cracker changes the state of 2^128 bits in 33 minutes. This is being extremely generous;
(Actually, for all I know, terawatt power sources may exist; that's out of my field. Please let me know if this is the case.
Not within a few million miles of here, and they'd be hard to conceal.
A few GW is fairly easy, by several methods.
Terawatts for a few microseconds is fairly standard technology, I believe. Femtosecond laser pulses driven by *very* large capacitor banks...
Terrestrial fusion is not a serious contender yet, and I doubt it will be for a long time.
It's easy to generate lots of power through fusion. The problem is confinement.
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