[82411] in Cypherpunks
Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason William RENNIE)
Tue Jun 24 18:23:12 1997
From: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:28:52 +1000 (EST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199706241449.PAA00198@server.test.net>
Reply-To: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Adam Back wrote:
> (Bearing in mind the reader in most cases hasn't grasped the
> difference between public key crypto and symmetric key, and is
> comparing 1024 bit keys to 56 bit keys and probably thinks that it is
> 1024/56 times harder.)
Well i guess i'll look stupid for asking but someone has to but what is
the diffrence ?? I dont know either, i'm on this list to learn things
like this. I'm still very new to all of this. I was aware that they
weren't 1024/56 times harder though.
jason =8-]
