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Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:22:43 +0800
...and what exactly is a "scientific number", and when was the last of them
"defined"? Or the first, for that matter? ;-)
Enzo
-----Original Message-----
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: CodherPlunks@toad.com <CodherPlunks@toad.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws Technologies: Snake Oil?
>Anonymous wrote:
>>
>>
>> Look at http://www.jawstech.com, and follow the link "Jaws - Security
>> Stronghold" which describes the technology. Here you find:
>
>> : For a message scrambled with 40-bit key encryption, it would take
>> : 1,099,511,627,776 guesses to decrypt it, according to Robert Kubbernus,
>> : CEO and chairman of Jaws, in Calgary, Alberta. For a message encrypted
>> : with a 4,096-bit key, there isn't even a name for the number of guesses
>> : it would take, he says.
>> :
>> : "For a 56-bit key, there are 72 trillion combinations," Kubbernus
>> : says. "For 4,096-bit key encryption, there are 411 commas in the number
>> : that represents the number of combinations. We are way past the last
>> : scientific number defined."
>
>How can key length alone (without the quality of the algorithm) be
>equivalent to strength of a crypto product??
>
>M. K. Shen
>
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