Unofficial Release

Tom Rollins trollins at debbie.telos.com
Wed Jun 22 07:07:22 PDT 1994


Perry @ insi.com says:
>Way overkill. Remember that 2000 is not just twice as hard as 1000 --
>even breakthroughs that improved factoring speed by factors of
>thousands couldn't break 2000 bit keys any century soon, if ever. I'd
>worry more about my key management -- before putting in even the
>effort to crack a 1500 bit key they are likely to just listen in on
>the emmissions from your keyboard and monitor.

Ahhhh, It is nice to know that people won't even TRY to crack
big keys. Cracking, you know, is a lot like the lotto. You
MIGHT guess the correct key on the first TRY. But, if you
don't TRY, then you won't crack the key.

	"Gotta play to win"

				-tom







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