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Article #3348Re: New PubKey System Coming
From: der Mouse
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1987 21:51
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1987 21:51
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>> [it is "virtually impossible" to break a certain system]
> Ok if I believe the assertion that it is impossible for an outsider
> to break the key (absolute security? right...), why, then I'll just
> bribe an insider! Startling new idea isn't it :-)
Right. People are often the weakest link in a security system.
Assuming, that is that there *is* an insider who knows the key. If
they were smart, there is no such person. (They killed him as soon as
he typed in the numbers....:-) A box could have, let us say, a
cosmic-ray detector which it uses to generate large numbers, then maybe
it counds by twos until it finds primes. (No flames on details please,
I just want to show the idea is feasible.)
der Mouse
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