From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 08:12:11 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote,
> > Nothing is uncrackable these days, even with brute-force.
> Sorry, but this is compleat bullshit.
OK. I exaggerate. Rather than "nothing is uncrackable", I should have said
"99% of the freebie downloadable software in use today run by clueless users
who just use the default settings and have no patience for time-consuming
complicated mathematics is probably crackable by a really determined
attacker today."
> No one is talking about encryption for an eternity,
> Secrets grew really stale really quick.
> In financial crypto a few minutes will do
I thought you disagreed with me above, but this seems to agree with my
point. Encryption is not forever. It is a temporary protection that is
"good enough" for now.
I thought this whole thread was because some people seem to imagine that
they can hide messages from the government and military that will never be
detected and will never be cracked. I'm just saying that this is naive and
such people had better do more than just download outguess and pgp.
-- Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant, Newstaff Inc. <www.Newstaff.com> Board of Directors, Extropy Institute <www.Extropy.org> Cofounder, Pro-Act <www.ProgressAction.org>
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