On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:44:42 -0600 (CST) Chris Schumann <cschumann@twp-llc.com> wrote:
> One cannot say that any encryption scheme will take six months. One can at
> best say on average how long a series of brute force attacks will take.
yes ofcourse, that was my point. thus i suggested to use an encryption which
directly relates to the value of data protected.
> And of course, the absolute longest it will take.
> After all, they might guess right on the very first try.
sure, but that may be true in practice for algorithms based on prime number theories,
and not valid for a public key encryption scheme like PGP.
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