From: unicorn@polaris.mindport.net (Black Unicorn)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 17:30:22 PDT
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: The end of public key cryptography as we know it?
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>In article <199507132009.AA15283@tyrell.net>, pgf@tyrell.net (Phil
>Fraering       ) wrote:
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>>   From: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@eng.auburn.edu>
>>   Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:46:10 -0500
>>
>>   An article posted on sci.crypt stated that quantum factoring
>>   is real and that an article was posted in this month's Science
>>   magazine. The author of the post says this would make factoring
>>   a 10 bit number the same time as factoring a 100000000 bit number.
>>
>>You can bet your ass and your mother's and grandmother's donatable
>>organs that if this were possible, then the legislative initiatives
>>currently underway would not be: they'd just let us use RSA and get
>>a false sense of security.

You give them too much credit.

Still, there's always IDEA and suchlike.  The legislation would stand in
any event.


>Even with a quantum computer, factoring is still an extra step that is not
>required with GAK. Besides, factoring will always be more expensive than
>GAK, at least for the other side.
>
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