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1997-06-24 - Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes

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From: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-24 21:49:58 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 05:49:58 +0800

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From: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 05:49:58 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> (Bearing in mind the reader in most cases hasn't grasped the
> difference between public key crypto and symmetric key, and is
> comparing 1024 bit keys to 56 bit keys and probably thinks that it is
> 1024/56 times harder.)

Well i guess i'll look stupid for asking but someone has to but what is 
the diffrence ?? I dont know either, i'm on this list to learn things 
like this. I'm still very new to all of this. I was aware that they 
weren't 1024/56 times harder though.

jason =8-]

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