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From: Jeff Gostin<jgostin at eternal.pha.pa.us>
Reply-To: jgostin at eternal.pha.pa.us
Subject:Re: How long is reasonable?
To: cypherpunks at toad.com
Message-ID: <940706151140E9Djgostin at eternal.pha.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 15:11:40 EST
X-Original-Article-From: Mike Markley <mmarkley at microsoft.com>
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Mike Markley <mmarkley at microsoft.com> writes:

> can't be broken in a reasonable amount of time. I'm  interested in what 
> most of the people on this list would consider a reasonable amount of 
> time though.
     For me, "reasonable amount of time" translates into "the minimum
amount of time neccessary to elapse before the information gained loses
its sensitive or critical value." In other words, if I encrypted some
rather embarrassing letters that I wanted to keep, but also wanted to keep
safe, the "reasonable amount of time" would be as long as it takes for me
to die, plus one day. If it's a "state secret", it might be 100 years.

                                   --Jeff
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