GPG's vulnerability to brute force

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sat May 17 19:52:07 CEST 2014


> However, the word "normally" is not quite apt. What you normally call
> the RAM of your computer is DRAM, and DRAM is implemented by a charge on
> a capacitor. This achieves much higher densities on a chip than SRAM,
> but is also slower.

Point, but I think it's equivalent: whether it's a flipflop getting a
signal or a microcapacitor that's charging/discharging, in both cases
previous state is getting obliterated and the entropic cost accrues.  :)

Thank you for the correction, though!



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