1997-06-13 - Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption

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From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-13 00:11:01 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:11:01 +0800

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From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:11:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption
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Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> writes:

> Somebody really needs to say the words "distributed computing" to
> Congress. Perhaps that will be the major benefit of the DES Challenge
> project when (not if) it succeeds.

I don't think the issue with china is key cracking.  The Chinese
supposedly used the supercomputers for weapons design and simulation,
which require significanly finer grained parallelism (and hence
lower-latency communication) than key cracking.

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  • 1997-06-12 (Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:32:38 +0800) - Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
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  • 1997-06-12 (Fri, 13 Jun 1997 04:02:35 +0800) - Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption - Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
    • 1997-06-12 (Fri, 13 Jun 1997 05:18:35 +0800) - Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption - Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>