2047 bit keys in PGP
Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon)
mark at unicorn.com
Thu Jan 4 10:53:00 PST 1996
On 4 Jan 1996, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> in a brute-force search. From Applied Crypto, 2nd ed, pp157-158,
> setting or clearing one bit takes at _least_ 4.4*10^-16 erg of energy.
I thought reversible computing could use an arbitarily small amount of
energy in computations ? Or is it that you can use it to get down to this
level of energy loss, but not below ? I'm not sure.
Mark
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