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Re: Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Fri Apr 2 01:17:28 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 2 Apr 1999 05:16:25 GMT
In article <4.1.19990401191516.00994e00@mail2.io.com>,
Michael Curry <mcurry@io.com> wrote:
>Neal included an interesting piece about his view of operating
>systems).
Which is quite a nice piece. Also on the page is an excerpt from the book.
Ooohhh... I want more... :-)
I'll even ignore the technical errors (as mentioned in the Cypherpunks FAQ):
> Even a 768-bit key requires vast resources to break. Add one bit, to
> make it 769 bits long, and it becomes twice as difficult. A 770-bit key
> is twice as difficult yet, and so on.
- Ian "and I have _code_ in that book, too :-)"
