1024 or 2048??
Brad Tilley
rtilley@vt.edu
Fri Apr 12 13:44:01 2002
Not as many as you may think. No one knows for certain whether or not
they've built that quantum computer yet ;)
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 02:03, David K. Trudgett wrote:
> On Thursday 2002-04-11 at 20:59:16 -0700, Leigh S. Jones wrote:
>
> > Of course the reason that messages encrypted with 4096 bits of public
> > key
> > can be broken is that the NSA is equipped to brute force the symmetric
> > encryption after some time.
>
> ...and how many millions of years is that?
>
> David Trudgett
>
>
>
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