On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Vinc Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could make it longer too. I mean you could require receiving multiple > sms's. It could be a very long key. >
Why bother? Even using only alphanumeric characters (I've counted 62 characters) there are more than 10^216 possible keys [1]. That means that somebody would want to break this system and would be sending to you 1 message per second it would require him about 3*10^207 years just to reach 10% probability of sending correct key. (Or about 10^216 years to get 0.5% probability). That will never happen. And I think that you'll get suspicious receiving long meaningless messages all these years. (Also phone will quite likely to become too old to use with cellular networks by that time. [1] 122180736803535480589223350267339719222459907508488666962777725357980522800709073153600165928612142210232085454876524842926435178601087679967305970361415808918724004919642128974801342733314107009534358023113252274176 to be exact. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
