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Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Fri Jun 13 13:05:03 1997
Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:19:23 -0000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> writes:
> Somebody really needs to say the words "distributed computing" to
> Congress. Perhaps that will be the major benefit of the DES Challenge
> project when (not if) it succeeds.
I don't think the issue with china is key cracking. The Chinese
supposedly used the supercomputers for weapons design and simulation,
which require significanly finer grained parallelism (and hence
lower-latency communication) than key cracking.
