PGP problems

Steve Lamb pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:51:09 -0700


Friday, August 04, 2000, 6:50:21 AM, Bill wrote:
> It is probably true that the NSA can find the key to any
> encryption, given sufficient time. So if they are interested in
> you, you will be broken. But if the NSA is interested in you,
> you have a whole new set of complicated problems.

    Given sufficient time.  Problem is, a properly designed encryption scheme,
esp. something like PGP, sufficient time is measured on the astronomical
scale, not a human one.

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