Re: PGP Secure? Nope!

From: Ant (not@home.today)
Date: 02/27/03 

From: "Ant" <not@home.today>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:00:09 -0000

"Fondula di Carceri" <fondula.di.carceri@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:QN77a.81890$Jd.8753@afrodite.telenet-ops.be...

[snip]
> Indeed, it's highly unlikely they have the raw computing power - but then
> again, they might have working quantum computers which would make brute
> force unnecessary (commercial firms already have more or less working
> prototypes of about 7 qubits, so high-tech governmental agencies are,
> probably, a few steps ahead).

I think you over estimate the abilities of government agencies.
Don't forget they are staffed by underpaid civil servants, who
often suffer from lack of motivation, and are hampered by
bureaucracy. I used to be one. The best brains are attracted
to dynamic high-tech private companies, or form their own.

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