How to explain...
Jim Sewell - KD4CKQ
jims at Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM
Sat Apr 23 07:25:41 PDT 1994
Hi folks!
I have something I'm sure someone on the list can help with. I need
to explain to someone who is "mostly-illiterate" about computers why
it is so difficult to break an RSA or DES type code. This person is
a good user and a beginning programmer. I understand intuitively,
but not well enough to explain it. His thinking is that if you have
formula X to go from plain to crypt then just reverse X and you'll
have the decryption algorithm. He figures that reversing a math
formula could be difficult, but given a desire and a few weeks that
nearly any formula can simply be reversed.
If you can explain it well and simplistically I'd appreciate it.
(As I said, I intuitively understand, but can't explain it well.)
Thanks,
Jim
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