PGP problems

[Bill Wood]

Not astronomical for PGP. a few hours to a few days, ... they
have the hardware. Our diplomatic codes must be good for 20
years minimum, and this may be in jeopardy depend on processing
advances.

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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:51:09 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>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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