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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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| On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: |
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|> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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|> | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they |
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|> | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the |
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|> | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's |
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|> | assumptions, would keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a year. |
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|> | And, if it is so easy for them, it is as easy for other governments |
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|> | too, right? That would mean they use a cipher that's easily |
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|> | crackable by other governments. Do you really think they do? |
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|> I didn't say it was "easy". All I said is that it is possible, with |
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|> enough resources, to crack keys. I very much doubt that the NSA |
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|> would be interested in cracking the key of the GPCode virus, since |
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|> they are more directed to the National Security of the US. |
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|> As for other governments, if they have large networks of |
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|> supercomputers, and cryptanalysis experts, then it would probably be |
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|> just as probable that they could crack any key from any publicly used |
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|> cipher algorithm. |
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| This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop listening |
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| to theoretical possibilities and things that might possibly could be. |
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| Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases like "three hundred |
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| thousand million years" has a different meaning in your universe than |
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| it does in mine. |
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Whom are you asking for a citation from? For which particular facts? Do you |
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really doubt that the US NSA has a *lot* of supercomputers? Do you really |
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doubt that they have experts in mathematics, cryptology, cryptanalysis, and |
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cryptography experts on staff? Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any |
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keys at all... |
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Chris |
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