From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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On Sat,  2 Sep 2000 23:30:18 -0400, James W Sager Iii
<sager+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 2-Sep-100 Re: Anti hacker
>game theory. by Damian Yerrick AT hotmail DOT c 
>> NSA encoding?  I don't think the United States National Security
>> Agency is opening up its tippy-top-secret encryption algorithms.
>
>Yes I mean NSA's security of 15 digit primes.  The held contests to
>break this simplistic code, and it took one company 2 years and ungodly
>amount of computer power to break the code.

Let's see...  This NSA stuff looks like public key crypto similar
to RSA...  Two 15-digit primes...  Multiply digits by 10/3 (think
kilobyte) to get bits...  This is two primes of 50 bits each.
Distributed.net has cracked 56-bit crypto in under 24 hours before.

>Since the NSA bases ALOT of security on this multiplication of two
>large primes, if you can find a way to factor hideously large numbers
>that doesn't take a hideous amount of time,

This is what GIMPS (great Internet Mersenne prime search) is trying to
do, except its primes are even _more_ hideous.

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