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Re: [IWAR] CRYPTO An Analysis of Shamir's Factoring Device
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Wed May 5 15:33:44 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 11:04:08 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
I think that our history books should have a
small line notation that in the space of four
months, both DES-56 and RSA-512 were shown to
be crackable within the capacity of a single
wealthy individual, much less a national lab.
As these correspond to the limits embodied in
the exportability debate, I believe that said
debate is therefore closed. Whether effective
and outright domestic use restrictions are now
the game remains the only imponderable.
--dan
