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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: New PubKey System Coming
Message-ID: <5490@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 11:56:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 11:56:48 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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-		It is virtually impossible for an outsider to break the 
-	decrypting 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.

I hope it is obvious to most readers of this newsgroup that
the above claim is bullshit.  A similar argument would lead
to the claim that Rubik's cube would take forever to solve.

I personally have broken cryptosystems with longer keys.
There is more to cryptosystem strength than key length.