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Well, I don't know, but I do know that as technology advances, so
does the technology to fool it. :)
 
So, as encryption advances so does anti-encryption.  And as
anti-encryption advances so does encryption.  It is all just like the
dance of life that happense every day in the natural world, only it's
all being done by humans, rather than natural evolution.
 
However long it takes for these new machines to crack one single
encrypted file, it will still take long enough that new encryption
algorithms will be writen to replace the old ones before any real
damage can be done by the crackers.  I'm confident of that.  If you
encrypt all of your data, and messages, regardless of how important
or unimportant it is, then that would give the computers a great deal
more work to do, wich would take a great deal more time. :)
 
Current best technology is at least 10 times better than what I have
now, so, I am way behind. :)
 
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:09:51 +1200 "David McNab"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I saw a TV news item about a new generation of CPUs, which can
apparently run at 30 times the speed of the best current technology.
 
Made me think about Freenet's encryption.
 
Has anyone worked out what order of magnitude of calculations is
required to derive the CHK of an encrypted file?
 
Any idea of how long it would take, say, an Athlon/Intel 1GHz CPU?
Or A high-end Cray?
 
What about other cracking - eg deriving the private key to match an
SVK/SSK public key?
 
And how hard would it be for large agencies eg FBI, CIA, Chinese
Intelligence, NSA, MI5, IRS etc to do this?
 
Just curious.
 
Cheers
David
 

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