1995-12-18 - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development

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From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:32:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development
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Correction of one detail:

> tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:
> When you've done this, and concluded that RSA-129 could be done in, say, X
> minutes, then move on to RSA-384 (the BlackNet key cracked by the MIT
> group), and on to the 1024- and 2048-bit keys. Tell us how many years or
> centuries it will take. (Hint: Rivest and Schneier have done these

The BlackNet key break didn't have any MIT involvement: it was done by
Paul Leyland of Oxford, Arjen Lenstra of Bellcore, Alec Muffet of Sun UK,
and Jim Gillogly of Cypherpunks, RAND, and Gillogly Software in no
particular order.

	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1995, 05:49

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• 1995-12-18 (Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:23:49 +0800) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
  • 1995-12-18 (Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:32:02 +0800) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
    • 1995-12-18 (Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:14:48 +0800) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
  • 1995-12-20 (Tue, 19 Dec 95 16:27:58 PST) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
    • 1995-12-20 (Tue, 19 Dec 95 17:44:21 PST) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - “Rev. Ben” <samman-ben@CS.YALE.EDU>
    • 1995-12-20 (Wed, 20 Dec 95 11:40:53 PST) - Re: What ever happened to… Cray Comp/NSA co-development - Light Ray <fricke@mae.engr.ucdavis.edu>