Re: AmigActive issue 3

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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00

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Adam Jones said, 

> In a futile gesture against entropy, Neil Bothwick wrote:

>> What's so hard to believe about it?  Do you really think SSL encrypted
>> HTTP transmissions are realistically crackable?

> The 40-bit keys common in most browsers outside the US sure as hell are.
> Anyone with reasonable resources could do it in seconds at the outside.
> (A cheap desktop could brute-force it in under a week, for comparison)

That's still an unrealistically long time, considering the number of
secure transactions that take place every minute.


Neil
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