| Which is by the way exactly the case with SecureIM. How
| hard is it to brute-force 128-bit DH ? My guesstimate
| is it's an order of minutes or even seconds, depending
| on CPU resources.
Sun's Secure NFS product from the 1980s had 192-bit Diffie-Hellman,
and a comment in one of the
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| But, opportunistic cryptography is even more fun
Why bother with all this? There is OTP for gaim, and it works just fine
(not to mention it comes from a definitely clueful source).
/ji
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why bother with all this? There is OTP for gaim, and it works just fine
(not to mention it comes from a definitely clueful source).
/ji
I meant, of course, OTR (off-the-record). And to think that I was using
it in another window as I was typing this!
Thanks to
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
Alex Pankratov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SecureIM
| But, opportunistic cryptography is even more fun. It is
| very encouraging to see projects implement cryptography in
| limited forms. A system that uses a primitive form of
| encryption is many orders of magnitude more secure than a
| system that implements none.
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