[Wolves] PGP

[Jon Farmer]

fizzy wrote:

> Or just makes the NSA write harder to spot back doors
> :) That is if they aren't cracking pgp already, truth
> is, no-one really knows...

If we mention NSA enough do you reckon they might take an interest in 
the LUG?

Truth is the NSA probably can crack PGP with their amount of computing 
power in a reasonable time. As I understand it the main thing is to be 
able to factor prime numbers and with the key sizes available these days 
you need to throw some serious CPU's at that.

Regards

Jon


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Jon Farmer
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