Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Antw: Re: CIPE - Encrypted IP Encapsulation | Date | Sat, 08 Aug 1998 21:51:25 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808082049320.3567-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex Buell writes: +----- | On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 linker@z.ml.org wrote: | > One of the nice things about the Linux development model is that it's | > highly fault tolerant. If the NSA kills Donald Becker, Linus, and | > David Miller then Alan Cox can contiue maintainership. :) | | Actually, the NSA has no authority to terminate persons. It's only the | shadowy figures in the corridors of power in Washingon DC who do. :o) BTW +--->8
Unfortunately, those shadowy figures that aren't in the pay of the CIA or the Secret Service are in the pay of the NSA.
| doesn't?), a quantum computer would have the ability to solve all types of | complex equations almost instantly - and that will be the death knell to +--->8
Well, what one might be able to do someday. It's been demonstrated that *in principle* they can do so, but just as it took many years for digital programming to reach its current state, it'll be a long time before we know how to program a quantum computer to solve e.g. RC5. (Even ignoring the minor issue that we don't know how to build a usable quantum computer yet.)
But you're correct that the prospect of quantum computers is a serious threat to current factoring-based encryption --- which is why cryptologists are working on elliptical (IIRC) algorithms that theoretically are beyond the ability of quantum computers to crack (and aren't susceptable to cracking by digital computers, either --- they'd be worthless if they blocked quantum computers but a 6502 could crack them easily :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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