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In article <1991Mar8.221121.1017@ll.mit.edu> twade@llex.ll.mit.edu ( Timothy Wade) writes:
>Well to implement RSA and make it even moderately secure ( It's been
> two years since I've followed factoring technology and was working in
>the public key area) you need special purpose hardware.  Modulo
>exponentiation in the hundreds or thousands of bits is pretty tough
>you know.  A Cylink chip will do it for you but it is pretty expensive
>( $500 ).  You just can't do it in software so I don't think it would

100 digits is supposed to be reasonably secure.  Takes about 15 seconds
on an 020.  You're not going to do a lot of file encrypting that way,
but it's okay for signatures.  Furthurmore for a signature you
don't have to wait.  You fork a process to do the verification and
let the user read the message.  Later on it comes back and tells them
whether or not it was valid.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.