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Julian Assange (proff@iq.org)
12 Aug 1998 04:28:50 +1000
"Brian C. Lane" <nexus@tatoosh.com> writes:
> The BBC is reporting that a 17 year old kid has implemented 2048 bit RC4
> and sold copies to a US company for their security. Sounds fishy to me,
> here's the article link from the BBC
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_145000/145179.stm
>
> Brian
This article is quite amusing. Our hero claims that it would take
30 billion years to break his 2048 bit rc4 key (ignore for a moment
my previous comments on the size of rc4 state).
In case you are wondering, in terms of keys per second, this figure
equates to:
341588513353109750768591204640938947662397499891293379335049313245440
714726744999293899050942023015640207149088046444481377045906799540430
989854477279387399803725661332033190552069568645248309939921123355150
384410163963075454715839694720259792788881178987462498269755653724588
740286929314725524259300803161697893765745691087653105179124012446038
983764959901087202750355776795051081393331580313066472858290173409686
323761857954481633172166218986812993590533921943506121318331545114680
842604237769864318764571099491128635369588166628118115151102709774960
22889759430635287956203117409181681202591951585334
keys per second (over a 30 billion year period).
The article ends with:
Good maths not required:
"I'm not really very good at maths, I got a B in the GCSE," he
said. "But this has to be done by a programmer, though they say
it's good if you have a basis in maths."
;)
Cheers,
Julian.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58