Re: Jaws Technologies: Snake Oil?

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 15:34:32 +0100

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Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:53:59AM +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> | How can key length alone (without the quality of the algorithm) be
> | equivalent to strength of a crypto product??
>
> Easy. For all systems where sizeof(key) => sizeof(message), and key
> is unpredictable.. ;)

And illuminating seems to be the hard mathematical problem of
computing the number of keys (of the size of the system in question)
needed to encrypt a message of 100 lines of 80 characters :)

M. K. Shen

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