NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org)

[J.A. Terranson]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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>    In the case of the NSA deal, the agency
>    wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the
>    equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits."

Am I the only one here who finds this "requirement" excessive?  My god: are
we looking to keep these secrets for 50 years, or 50000 (or more) years?

Or am I missing something?

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