key bit lengths

Julian Assange proff at suburbia.net
Sun Apr 14 17:35:32 PDT 1996


> so a brute force attack might take much less energy several billion years
> hence, since the universe will cooled off more.

Proportionally to the amount of energy available in the universe to conduct
such an attack however. You have to get it from somewhere.

-- 
"I mean, after all;  you have to consider we're only made out of dust.  That's
 admittedly not  much  to  go  on  and  we  shouldn't  forget  that.  But even
 considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So
 I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we
 can make it. You get me?" - Leo Bulero/PKD
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