[45580] in Cypherpunks
Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Dec 18 14:22:44 1995
To: jim@acm.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 1995 21:50:45 PST."
<199512180550.VAA13167@mycroft.rand.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:15:38 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Correction of another 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
RSA-129 is 129 decimal digits, not 129 bits. This computes to about
425 bits, which is actually more difficult than the 384-bit Blacknet
key.
-derek
