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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (47209)1/25/1999 3:23:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1570712
 
Paul,

"Deep Crack and Distributed.Net's network of nearly 100,000 PCs on the Internet won DES Challenge III in 22 hours and 15 minutes."

AND YOU ARE TELLING THE WORLD THAT THOSE 56 BIT- ENCRYPTED MESAGES are SECURE?

Let's see- 22 hours of time on a network of 100,000 PCs, to decrypt some guys credit card number who probably has a limit of about $5000 on his account. Is that what you call cost effective?

If you want someone else's credit card number that bad, get in line at the department store and look over their shoulder.

Hardware data security is unnecessary for the vast majority of computer users. The Clipper II is for the benefit of Bill Gate's wallet, not for the typical consumer.

Scumbria
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