Re: Stupid security measures, a contest

2003-02-15 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:18:00AM -0800, alan wrote: The extra anal security guard can be fun to play with. A little bit more about guards: In 1985/86 I did my compulsory army service in Koblenz, which also included to be the guard of the barracks for several days. When I was the guard of

RE: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-15 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:08 AM 02/13/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Pete Chown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As a footnote to those times, 2 ** 40 is 1,099,511,627,776. My PC can do 3,400,000 DES encryptions per second (according to openssl). I believe DES key setup is around the same cost as one encryption, so we