Provably "Secure" Crypto (was: IPG Algorithm Broken!)

[Robert Hettinga]

At 6:41 am -0500 11/26/96, Paul Foley wrote:
>There's a Moore's second law?

"When the fabs cost $10 billion to build, all bets are off." ;-)

That's expected to happen in 10 years or so. Fab prices have been going up
by an order of magnitude every N years since the beginning of
semiconductors. Forbes did an article on this earlier this year, I think.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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