Re: Encryption
Re: Encryption
- Subject: Re: Encryption
- From: Robert Tito <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 01:20:27 +0100
Hello Nicko,
While 128 bits encryption is pretty safe when used in transactions that last
1-3 seconds its not when using corporate e-mail
Please read the most recent proceedings in the scientific literature that
proves what I am saying.
regards
On 2-1-2004 0:46, "Nicko van Someren" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 1 Jan 2004, at 23:00, Robert Tito wrote:
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> How well meant your advice is, and a happy new year to you, it doesnt
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> give
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> you status 4 in encryption, meaning top secret government level. It
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> takes a
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> mere 15-20 minutes to crack any single 128 bits engine so I think you
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> have
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> either NO knowledge about encryption and or forensic research.
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> Verisign for
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> instance is one of the least safest way to encrypt: the man in the
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> middle is
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> always possible, how hard they try to prevent it.
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>
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> Believe me, we have an engine that will take you 1 over 10^1256
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> attempts to
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> crack: good luck.
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> 128 bits is cracked in no time at all.
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>
That's odd. I've spent half my professional life as the CTO of an
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major publicly traded encryption company and somehow I had never
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noticed that all the published cryptographic research in the world is
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wrong and you're right...
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>
To date the largest symmetric encryption key publicly broken by brute
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force is a 64 bit RC5 key. It took a distributed effort of thousands
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of computers most of a year to do so. Breaking a 128 bit key is 2^64
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time, or about 18.4 million million million times harder. While
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conspiracy theorists might think that this is breakable by the spooks
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the vast majority of opinion is that this is sufficient for most
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applications.
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>
Nicko
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