-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: |> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |> | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they |> | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the |> | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's |> | assumptions, would keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a year. |> | |> | And, if it is so easy for them, it is as easy for other governments |> | too, right? That would mean they use a cipher that's easily |> | crackable by other governments. Do you really think they do? |> |> I didn't say it was "easy". All I said is that it is possible, with |> enough resources, to crack keys. I very much doubt that the NSA |> would be interested in cracking the key of the GPCode virus, since |> they are more directed to the National Security of the US. |> |> As for other governments, if they have large networks of |> supercomputers, and cryptanalysis experts, then it would probably be |> just as probable that they could crack any key from any publicly used |> cipher algorithm. | | This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop listening | to theoretical possibilities and things that might possibly could be. | Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases like "three hundred | thousand million years" has a different meaning in your universe than | it does in mine.
Whom are you asking for a citation from? For which particular facts? Do you really doubt that the US NSA has a *lot* of supercomputers? Do you really doubt that they have experts in mathematics, cryptology, cryptanalysis, and cryptography experts on staff? Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJIYrCEAAoJEIAhA8M9p9DANokQAMVlJk0AoEa11ixiLCeNrEo/ RHkuMpHYeBpEAbWKhqqwdPZPE4voBdT70pbJeK5MXCoMNGpUopW4vYdtEv6WA88Q LaPHdr9RdOf0n/7LLr6el61sbe41S5DRHLFnh63c83v0hSjyJVir+WoaOMGh0psG wUist2SyPos7rNrgSs0MeOKM2/qSCpC0OF3HZmMQhPXVQQHSWC03T14EX+dTtSeb +oxZ8aky0sqzfjvc84ep7zM9WUxN+JFR7bjokpzOwryiZt729nMxa3SATCcJWvhH 6RHtAK4gK9tXbZJ/70Um7D98lPLTeilImYIVAANhpkA/MwB8UN2d9BHxTdnZ5iCs GRWAMFllDUFKTmCnx0yXkdP/UQA0VuJeqE2dVv1gn0wUft93I9fxQcGKkGc2X3r3 Vz7crUhLgVZyasXXMe5IRBr6ZbBsSX/f/2zGaTG/jDpFBBVUqV5JE1LBds0uMwre zvsRicdAuNV2yzFYkkbOzDsupJClHqWv/xqO4gcQqArtYXuMgrPlaiF+nibW5aeM 0tZfFsZk+CE7HkpNx6GPVoCk1hTao5LfZhcx/HNk7e0v0OV4I6YkO7beFLPK4oNM FXA2xIskjqBjjuAviP59oO0sMJYwuxH4E/DCjjxscqkzowoBc401SauK/1eeuCG4 1MAYx/+jN69eWKxMTmZT =N/8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
