On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> It is not impossible at all. Merely improbable. Even with current >> techniques. So improbable because ( 2^128 - 1 ) = >> 340282366920938463463374607431768211455 is a staggeringly large number. Even >> Mathematica takes a pause to factor a number that has prime factors in that >> scale. But it can be done. Like landing on the moon. > > No, it cannot; it is even *theoretically* impossible to brute force a > password of that length. The universe is just not big enough. > > When 56 bits keys were introduced they were, perhaps, merely infeasible to > crack; but it was known that it was theoretically possible within 10-20 > years, hence the design lifetime of DES. (Didn't it expire in the 80s or > early 90s?)
Possibly in 1984 :) (sorry couldn't resist :) FrankH. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
