PGP: sequencing messages

Simon Bowring pmmail@rpglink.com
Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:36:07 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:53:04 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>the chances of that happening are ~377^52 [to 1]
which is 1 in every 
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messages!

I haven't looked up the figures, but this is probably "better" than the
chances of two people having the same fingerprint or DNA fingerprint!
(Bear in mind that both fingerprint matching and DNA fingerprint matching, 
rely on comparing only certain features, not your entire fingerprint/genome!)

"Beyond reasonable doubt" in my opinion!

Simon