[87111] in Cypherpunks
RE: Why the White amendment is a good idea #2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Weissman)
Thu Sep 25 19:10:22 1997
From: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
To: "'Tim May'" <tcmay@got.net>,
"'fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu'"
<fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:51:59 -0600
Reply-To: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
On Thursday, September 25, 1997 11:34 AM, Tim May [SMTP:tcmay@got.net]
wrote:
> Though we as technical people are usually cautious to say that
> "unbreakable" is a dangerous word, the fact is that it's our current best
> description of what a 2000-bit RSA key is, and that's all there is to it.
I don't dispute you -- in the slightest -- that a brute force attack
against a 2000-bit RSA key is functionally impossible today. However, I
don't think that a brute force attack is the most likely for a functional
law enforcement (or national security) crypto lab. Unless you think that
today's algorithms and conventional random number generators are perfect
...
Aaron
