Re: septillion operations per second

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Brodhead
If they ever build such a computer (or 1.000.000 of them) what would that mean for today's key lengths ? I am curious how long a computer capable of a septillion operations per second would take to crack one 128 bit or 256 bit key. Or a RSA 1024 or 2048 bit key for that matter ... take a

Re: septillion operations per second

2001-06-21 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 12:16 PM +0200 6/20/2001, Barry Wels wrote: Hi, In James Bamford's new book 'Body of Secrets' he claims the NSA is working on some FAST computers. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/book.html --- The secret community is also home to the largest collection of hyper-powerful

Re: septillion operations per second

2001-06-21 Thread David Honig
At 12:16 PM 6/20/01 +0200, Barry Wels wrote: Hi, In James Bamford's new book 'Body of Secrets' he claims the NSA is working on some FAST computers. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/book.html Fantastic book. I read the stuff about using Areceibo for moon-bounce surveillance of

Re: septillion operations per second

2001-06-21 Thread Ben Laurie
Barry Wels wrote: Hi, In James Bamford's new book 'Body of Secrets' he claims the NSA is working on some FAST computers. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/book.html --- The secret community is also home to the largest collection of hyper-powerful computers, advanced

Cryptobox (was Re: Edupage, June 20, 2001)

2001-06-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:08 PM -0600 on 6/20/01, EDUCAUSE wrote: PRIVATE LIFE Researchers at Ottawa University are developing Cryptobox, a program that encrypts e-mail, instant messages, and other Internet communications. The program works by sending transmissions over a peer-to-peer network, scrambling each

Re: septillion operations per second

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Brodhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: take a peek at the chapter on key lengths in Schneier's Applied Cryptography. it is an entertaining read. in short, he makes the case that computers as we understand them simply cannot conduct brute force attacks against

Re: Cryptobox (was Re: Edupage, June 20, 2001)

2001-06-21 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:05PM +0100, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 5:08 PM -0600 on 6/20/01, EDUCAUSE wrote: PRIVATE LIFE Researchers at Ottawa University are developing Cryptobox, a program that encrypts e-mail, instant messages, and other Internet communications. The program works