On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Randall Webmail wrote: > I suppose we've all seen the "proofs" that brute-forcing PGP would > take a supercomputer the size of the planet longer than the age of > the universe to accomplish. Was the math faulty in those proofs, > or is it true, and the NSA is just empire-building?
Maybe they only plan to brute-force human-provided passphrases used to generate AES keys? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <[email protected]> Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
