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Re: 2048-bit RSA keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Tue Aug 17 16:39:02 2010
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:24:23 -0400
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com> wrote:
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> The storage required for 2048 is approximately 2^64 bytes...
>
And from the density (1TB per cubic inch) in US Patent Application
20090094406, that gives about 70,000 gallons of memory or about 14 of
my father-in-law's average sized backyard swimming pools.
Dive in, the bits are the perfect temperature.
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-Michael Heyman
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