CDR: Swedish Team Cracks Tough Computer Codes (was Re: NewsScan Daily,

[David Marshall]

"R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> writes:

> They must mean RSA512, of course.
> 
> Given various people's pings to me about the death of 128-bit RC4, :-),
> someone should tell the New York Times, and others, about the difference
> between symmetric and asymmetric ciphers...
> 
> Cheers,
> RAH

Someone might also want to tell them that "70 years of computer time"
is a meaningless measurement unless they define how many cycles are
in a year of "computer time."

Of course, I could be missing some phantom standard concerning what
constitutes a year of computer time.

> > codes, which took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer time to
> > decrypt, ranged from ciphers dating back to ancient Greece through the