Privacy, wasRe: PGP problems

[Skip Huffman]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 06:42:00 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:30:02AM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>> Even 56 bit keys would do for most cases, it increases the decryption effort
>> required enormously.
>
>    Erm....  Welll, considering the last RC5 (or was it DES) 56bit key effort
>was cracked in, what 2-3 days with 1/2 the total work performed by one machine
>I'd say that isn't the case if they target an individual sending to certain
>other individuals.

4-6 days does make trolling impractical.  If they want to crack
a specific message, or small group of messages, they can
certainly do it, but it would be difficult to just fling a net
across an internet backbone and seine for keywords.

Skip


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com