Re: Encryption
Re: Encryption
- Subject: Re: Encryption
- From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:46:40 +0000
On 1 Jan 2004, at 23:00, Robert Tito wrote:
How well meant your advice is, and a happy new year to you, it doesnt
give
you status 4 in encryption, meaning top secret government level. It
takes a
mere 15-20 minutes to crack any single 128 bits engine so I think you
have
either NO knowledge about encryption and or forensic research.
Verisign for
instance is one of the least safest way to encrypt: the man in the
middle is
always possible, how hard they try to prevent it.
Believe me, we have an engine that will take you 1 over 10^1256
attempts to
crack: good luck.
128 bits is cracked in no time at all.
That's odd. I've spent half my professional life as the CTO of an
major publicly traded encryption company and somehow I had never
noticed that all the published cryptographic research in the world is
wrong and you're right...
To date the largest symmetric encryption key publicly broken by brute
force is a 64 bit RC5 key. It took a distributed effort of thousands
of computers most of a year to do so. Breaking a 128 bit key is 2^64
time, or about 18.4 million million million times harder. While
conspiracy theorists might think that this is breakable by the spooks
the vast majority of opinion is that this is sufficient for most
applications.
Nicko
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