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To: Richard.Johnson@colorado.edu (Richard Johnson)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 1995 13:02:26 CST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 15:20:49 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Richard Johnson writes:
> Hilarie Orman <ho@cs.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >If you are willing to accept that in all likelihood, one year from
> >now, some group will announce that can "crack" all key exchanges that
> >using the published modulus, then sure, call it sufficient.
>
> Sounds like someone just threw down a gauntlet.
>
> Is it even possible to do the precomputations in a distributed manner in
> less than a year or two?
I would guess that it probably is. However, there is no point in
trying to do this yet since I suspect that Phil and Bill can be
convinced that its a bad idea to specify a 512 bit modulus.
Perry
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