[14561] in Cypherpunks
Re: News Flash: Clipper Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jun 2 09:39:49 1994
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 09:02:53 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 09:36:42 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Duncan Frissell says:
> If generating these things takes a lot of computing power, maybe we could
> come up with a distributed processing project like RSA 129 was cracked by.
No, it doesn't require so much compute power as to need such
activity. I'm still examining Matt's paper -- I'll get him to explain,
or if he doesn't I'll post a summary.
Perry
