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1994-03-30 - Re: Crypto and new computing strategies

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
To: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Message Hash: 15a6b1252c061b29081c4eb91aa60adac199adc089fd09694a838f9a45a95fb9
Message ID: <199403301746.AA00769@zoom.bga.com>
Reply To: <Pine.3.05.9403301026.A6652-9100000@panix.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-03-30 19:38:31 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 11:38:31 PST

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 11:38:31 PST
To: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Subject: Re: Crypto and new computing strategies
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9403301026.A6652-9100000@panix.com>
Message-ID: <199403301746.AA00769@zoom.bga.com>
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> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 1994, Jim choate wrote:
> 
> > it. First, historicaly (and emotionaly on my part) I have a hard time taking the
> > premise that the status quo will stay the status quo. I have this belief that
> > some bright person is going to come along and blow all our pipe dreams away.
> 
> However faster cracking means faster encrypting (using larger keys) as
> well.  I don't think the US government can maintain a tech edge over the
> market for long in any case.  The Soviet government couldn't.
> 
> DCF
> 
> 
> 
> 
The point that is being missed is that if a method arrises to crack a n-bit
key there is sufficient reason to believe that it can be used to crack a m-bit
key, where m>n. I suspect that when the algorithm is worked out that it will
NOT be bit length dependant. Also remember where most crypto folks get their 
funding from...Uncle Sam or his kin.

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