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From: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: objectivity and factoring analysis
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:51:59 +0100
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I'd just like to make a
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/21/encryption.future.ap/index.html
Keeping e-mail encryption alive
NEW YORK (AP) --Phil Zimmermann knows a thing or two about adversity.
His invention for encrypting e-mail, Pretty Good Privacy, was so good that
the government considered it munitions
Nicko van Someren writes:
The estimate
of the cost of construction I gave was some hundreds of
millions of dollars, a figure by which I still stand.
But what does that mean, to specify (and stand by) the cost of
construction of a factoring machine, without saying anything about how
fast it
