From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 1996 - 17:19:13 MST
> Fantaside:
> I want fast symmetric kilobit-key encryption. Search space of 10^300.
> 10^100 particles in the universe, each a hypercomputer running at 10^100
> attempts a second, given the age of the universe (10^17 seconds) would
> be worthless. Bwa-ha-ha!
Search space of 10^300 = 1000^100 = 2^1000.
1kbit of quantum dots and your encryption is useless.
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