begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0800: [snip] > A hundred times the computing power is still not match for a 4096 bit key.
What is a match? > Didn't I read somewhere that if all of the atoms in the universe were used > to make computers they still couldn't solve it in a reasonable amount of > time? Would even a quantum computer be able to do it? It would have to be > able to represent 2^4096 states all at once. Atoms are small but that's a > lot of atoms. A quantum computer ought to be able to handle the problem -- really, widespread, cheap, reliable quantum computing is the death-knell for most, if not all, public-key cryptography, as I understand it. -Stewart "We should start thinking about one-time pads." Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
