Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!nbires!vianet!devine From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: New PubKey System Coming Message-ID: <117@vianet.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 15:35:59 EST Article-I.D.: vianet.117 Posted: Fri Jan 9 15:35:59 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 02:22:10 EST References: <3859@utcsri.UUCP> <5490@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: ViaNetix Boulder, CO Lines: 11 Summary: there's more to security than the algorithm > It is virtually impossible for an outsider to break the > encrypting key, which consists of a binary string of more than 1,000 > characters, Mr. Vanstone said. > "It would take more than a billion years, working with the > fastest computers available, to break just one key," he said. Ok if I believe the assertion that it is impossible for an outsider to break the key (absolute security? right...), why, then I'll just bribe an insider! Startling new idea isn't it :-) Bob Devine