L'acrobat wrote:

"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message
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Only an idiot would suggest that any code is "Uncrackable in the
lifetime of
the serious user" ands so you did.
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It *IS*!
If you choose to try to crack RSA go to their site and download a
test message and try it. None have done so above the known prime
lengths that are do-able.

We aren't discussing ME doing it you cretin.
We are discussing a Govt doing it.
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You have megalomaniacal paranoid delusions as to the capability
of govts.


Again, ask the Good Admiral D how confident he was that his system
was
safe.
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You're blathering, hoping that line will sustain you while you try
to bluster your way out of this, when the fact is that RSA is
qualitatively different than any systematically crackable cipher.

As has already been shown, RSA isn't uncrackable,
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Which we knew, but it takes for ****ing ever statistically.
It can easily be made to take longer than the current age of the
universe.

That is what you believe. you are wrong.
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No, that is what Whit Diffie, R., S., and A, in "RSA" and
James Bidzos believe for solid mathematical reasons.


everyone always thinks their codes
are safe right up to the point that they are not safe.
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That alone has nothing to do with the mathematical argument here,
and what is truly sad is that you simply don't understand the math.


What, exactly do you think the NSA is doing with all those 'puters they
own?
playing Doom?
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Monitoring un-coded transmissions en masse hoping to flag trends
or conspiracies by other characteristic signatures.

But as for cracking RSA encoded messages or even kiddy porn being
sent encoded from Europe: Not a whole ****ing hell of a lot anymore.
They are hoping their hardware will frighten terrorists out of using
commonly available public domain technology to completely defeat them,
while knowing that everyone who knows anything knows they are totally
defeated by any kid with a computer if he bothers to look it up and
download the tools and use a long enough bit-length and a decent
firewall properly installed.

Of course they are, they have eleventy squillion bucks worth of
supercomputers, all of which is just to 'frighten'.
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I see you don't actually even KNOW the scale difference available
to the NSA. Example, please define "eleventy squillion".


Of course RSA is uncrackable, just like the good Admirals systems
and I
assume he had a lackwitted buffoon just like you telling him that there
was
no way anyone could be decrypting our stuff too...
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That's irrelevant, because he would have simply been technically
wrong out of his own ignorance of cryptology, whereas I am not.

Anyone stupid enough to believe their crypto is uncrackable is
utterly ignorant and a dangerous fool to boot.
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Unless they're right, and then, of course, they're aren't.
And you don't even know. Pitiful.

-Steve
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