I have a question. There seems to be a lot of excitement over the key escrow stuff da gubermint is trying to install. Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these are like, gonna be my keys. Wouldn't this place them into a brute force search if they wanted to play with your info? Doing this will likely add to the tax burden for all dem disk drives needed to store them numbers. :( If ya can't do that, then they must be gonna sell key space like da radio spectrm - which means some number is gonna mean something to someone somewhere - yum yum say the hackers and the crackers. I'm thinking there will be a way no matter what happens....
At 2:13 PM -0400 9/29/96, Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
I have a question.
There seems to be a lot of excitement over the key escrow stuff da gubermint is trying to install.
Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these are like, gonna be my keys.
This has been discussed many times, even very recently. You don't think key registration will be _free_, do you? Not many licenses are. (Ignoring the issue of 10^200 being a lot more than there are particles in the Universe, now estimated to be 10^75 elementary particles.) --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
: Couldn't one burn off maybe 10 ** 200 keys and say, hey gubermint dude, these : are like, gonna be my keys. At 15 bucks a pop, even Bill Gates couldn't afford to register that many keys.
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