Crypto and new computing strategies

[Jim choate]

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> On Wed, 30 Mar 1994, Jim choate wrote:
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> > it. First, historicaly (and emotionaly on my part) I have a hard time taking the
> > premise that the status quo will stay the status quo. I have this belief that
> > some bright person is going to come along and blow all our pipe dreams away.
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> However faster cracking means faster encrypting (using larger keys) as
> well.  I don't think the US government can maintain a tech edge over the
> market for long in any case.  The Soviet government couldn't.
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> DCF
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The point that is being missed is that if a method arrises to crack a n-bit
key there is sufficient reason to believe that it can be used to crack a m-bit
key, where m>n. I suspect that when the algorithm is worked out that it will
NOT be bit length dependant. Also remember where most crypto folks get their 
funding from...Uncle Sam or his kin.