[45554] in Cypherpunks
Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Mon Dec 18 01:08:38 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 17 Dec 95 22:11:52 -0800.
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From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Reply-To: jim@acm.org
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 21:50:45 PST
Correction of one detail:
> tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) writes:
> When you've done this, and concluded that RSA-129 could be done in, say, X
> minutes, then move on to RSA-384 (the BlackNet key cracked by the MIT
> group), and on to the 1024- and 2048-bit keys. Tell us how many years or
> centuries it will take. (Hint: Rivest and Schneier have done these
The BlackNet key break didn't have any MIT involvement: it was done by
Paul Leyland of Oxford, Arjen Lenstra of Bellcore, Alec Muffet of Sun UK,
and Jim Gillogly of Cypherpunks, RAND, and Gillogly Software in no
particular order.
Jim Gillogly
Trewesday, 28 Foreyule S.R. 1995, 05:49
