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Irish blood donor records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Malone)
Thu Feb 21 12:15:36 2008
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:12:30 +0000
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
It seems that disk containing records of the Irish Blood Transfusion
service seems to have been stolen in New York:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0219/blood.html
Thankfully, the data was encrypted. The head of the IBTS said on
the news that there was a remote possibility of access, roughly
equivelent to winning the Euromillions Lottery 10 times in a row.
Based on the jackpot odds from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroMillions
they are probably thinking around lg(76275360)*10 = 261.84, or 256
bits of key.
David.
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