1024 or 2048??

[Michael Anckaert]

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On Friday 12 April 2002 08:03, you 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
> if they really want to get to your data, they can break a 4096 bits key in 
about 7-8 months. But they wont do that unless you're a really big guy named 
osamma... After all it will take all their resources they have to break in 
such a short time span.
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Michael Anckaert
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http://galileo.spaceports.com/~xantor

Public gpg key: xantor <xantor@carpathia>
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