[53124] in Cypherpunks
Re: (fwd) Russians Break RSA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barber)
Mon Apr 1 16:51:59 1996
From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:59:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, tcmay@netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <ad856eda0f021004dc93@[205.199.118.202]> from "Timothy C. May" at Apr 1, 96 12:57:54 pm
Timothy C. May writes:
[ Russians developed PK crypto circa 1960 ]
> > The Kolmogorov system is broken by computing the prime numbers
> > which form what is called the modulus. This is done by randomly
> > guessing the constituent primes and then detonating all of the
> > stockpiled nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union for each "wrong
> > guess." In the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics,
> > invented in 1949 by Lev Landau (and later, independently by Everett
> > and Wheeler in the U.S.), all possible outcomes of a quantum
> > experiment are realized.
So *that's* how you do quantum cryptography! Good article, Tim.
Nice day for it too.
-- Jeff
