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SubjectRe: Antw: Re: CIPE - Encrypted IP Encapsulation
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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 :-)

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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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