PGP problems

[Winfried Tilanus]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 20:51:22 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

>I think you're understimating parallel computing power. At least, the DES encryption algorithm --with a 56 bit key-- 
>was broken in just three days back in 1998 (22 hours in 1999). You can read the history at 
>http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/

Allright, now lets extrapolate that to an 128 bit key:

It should take 2^(128-56) times longer. In that is: 3.8814e+19 years.
Even if computing power gets 1.000.000.000.000.000 times bigger, no one
of us would ever see that one broken.


Groet,
Winfried

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