[81682] in Cypherpunks
Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Thu Jun 12 20:31:22 1997
Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:19:26 -0000
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
Reply-To: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> writes:
> Somebody really needs to say the words "distributed computing" to
> Congress. Perhaps that will be the major benefit of the DES Challenge
> project when (not if) it succeeds.
I don't think the issue with china is key cracking. The Chinese
supposedly used the supercomputers for weapons design and simulation,
which require significanly finer grained parallelism (and hence
lower-latency communication) than key cracking.
