From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 94 10:15:59 PDT
To: Mike Markley <mmarkley@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Windows for Workgroups 3.11
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Mike Markley says:
> The 129 digit key was broken in 8 calendar months and not 8 CPU months, 
> correct? If so then for most purposes a 129 digit key is more than 
> adequate. If you are faxing a contract to someone then if the deal 
> isn't signed in 8 months the odds are that information about it will 
> leak from a different source than your fax.

This isn't true. If you are signing the contract digitally, for
instance, you would want to be sure that no one could forge your
signature to change the terms after the fact -- a few months isn't
enough for such purposes, only something that will last for fifteen or
twenty years is okay.

Perry