So you repeat, with maybe 80% accuracy, something from an intro to computer science text book and pretend to know what you're talking about? Pure, irrelevant twaddle!
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Here is why:
compare old computers (10 years old) 80080 chips 8 bit with Pentiums:
SPEED:
<1MHz= 1 Megahertz = 1 Million instructions(Commands) per second
whereas:
Pentiums Chips for eg. 500 MHz = 500 Million instructions per second
DATA BIT SIZES:
(2KB = 2 KiloBytes= 2,000 bytes (8 Bits per Bytes)
it takes 8 Bits to = 1 Byte, 1 Byte = 1 character,
2000 Bytes (Characters = 1 type page more or less)
Computer chips: 80080, 80086, 80186, 80286, 80386(First Multi-Task)
Multi-task means it can run several Applications or Windows open at a
time, that is the bases of modern Windows operating system programs,
the Chip is like a card dealer, it need to be able to quickly deal cards to
more than one player (Program or User if a network server)
The size of info on each card depends on the BIT structure of the chip
also.
80486, 80586 really we now just say Pentiums hereafter,
Pentium I, Pentium II, Pentium III
the difference is, that computers deal in 0's and 1's, this is a numbering
system called base 2 or BINARY,
it really gets to be 2 multiplied by 2 multiplied by 2= 2x2x2 = 8
that is in exponential terms 2 to the 3rd power 2^3
The characters on your screen are based on ASCI/ANSI characters
of 8 bits or Bytes, so the numbering really is base 8, not base 10 our
human numbering system of 0-9, 10-19, 20-29 etc.
If the chip or server can send info out in bigger blocks,
like dealing cards with more info on each card, its is QUICKER
2^3=8^1 = 8
2^4= 80486 = 16 or older 16 bit archecture, most digital signatures
.................are only this long, being written in this older
.................programming structure
2^5= 80586 = 32 This is called 32 bit archetecture, software witten
.................like this is fast, most programs today are
.................16 or 32 bit
2^6= 8^2 = 64
2^7= = 128
2^8= 8^3 = 256 For example the original ASCI character chart
.................consists of is 256, here each is "accounted for"
.................tremendous speed and more info on each card, each time the
dealer (CHIP OR SERVER computer on a netword, serve or deals out data
"a card' to each player or user or "client" on a network.
2^9 = 512
2^10= 1024 The Future is FASTER CHIPS ARE BETTER
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All of which says NOTHING about CUST or Verisigns technology.
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their software is written in the coded style or structure that
only accepts shorter strings of data (Smaller sentences, smaller words, less info).
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I'll bet you can't give us one specific reason VRSN can't rewrite thier software to use a longer encryption key, nor for that matter, why they would need to.
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It will take them 4 moer years to re-write that code, and they will need to buy more computers to keep up, they painted themselves in a corner, that is expensive to undo,
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I challenge you to back up your "4 years to re-write" statement. More vapor, like your "computer science know-how"?
And computer upgrades are a known, and manageble part of life for any information technology company. |
