daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, shane wrote: > > > On Friday 31 May 2002 11:26 am, daRcmaTTeR did speak unto the huddled
> > > i'm quite sure you're correct. > > > > i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. > > http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html > > > > in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today (not > > built) it would take hundreds of years to guess a key. > > > > or to quote another page: > > > > To recover a particular (128 bit) key, one must, on average, search half the > > keyspace. That is 127 bits: > > > > 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303715,884,105,728. > > > > If you had 1,000,000,000 machines that could try 1,000,000,000 keys/sec, it > > would still take all these machines longer than the universe as we know it > > has existed and then some, to find the key. IDEA, as far as present > > technology is concerned, is not vulnerable to brute-force attack, pure and > > simple. > > > > the key size i use (again only once in awhile, but i use it) will take > > 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 MIPS-years to factor. let them break that in > > 2-3 minutes. > > > > as for backdoors, do you think they could do that to an open source project? > > nobody would notice? nah..... > > good point shane! I feel better now. > > -- > Mark > a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR > ------------------ Figures I made my own post before I saw this... i said DESA, I mean IDEA. Heh, sorry ;p -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert
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