Re: Problems With Public Key Cryptosystems

From: Matthijs Hebly (heeb_at_iname.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 06:21:14 GMT

Bill Unruh wrote:
> tibor_g_balogh@att.net (Tibor Gyula Balogh) writes:
> ]Problems With Public Key Cryptosystems
> ] that Publish Products of Large Prime Numbers as a Public Key
> ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ]Problems with public key cryptosystems that publish products of large
> ]prime numbers as a public key to be used to encrypt information with
> ]is that an attacker can in his or her spare time precompute and store
> ]the products of all prime numbers reducing the 'factoring' of products
> ]of prime numbers to a simple look up table search for the previously
> Uh-huh. Sure. Now sit down and calculate how many primes there are with
> length of 500 bits, and how much memory would be required to store it, and
> then how much memory would be required to store the products of two of
> those.
> The answer is larger than the number of atoms in the universe by a very
> very very large factor. Where exactly will you store this lookup table?
In the multitude of parallel universes probably :-)

Look at the OP's website. E.g.:

"The distance between parallel four dimensinal universes I believe is
measured by the number of dejavu instances you experience in a row, or
over longer periods of time, say over a lifetime."

Or maybe inside an infinite number of parallel crapcircles:

"Perfect Crop Circle formations are formed without damage to the living
plant by way of advanced 5 dimensional technology where special growth
instructions are given to selected plants to bend or grow at a 90 degree
angle to be able to be part of the crop formation."

He will probably start waaay back in the past, and do it using nanotime
technology, so he'll be finished sooner:

"Frequently groups of individuals visit my personal area using nanotime
technology where only a fraction of time elapses for me in which the
visitors have the luxury of a few minutes to look around
add/remove/modify anything in or on my motor home, most often the
visitors are originating from the past oh maybe 13 years or more from
the past, taking information they learn back with them and writing
classified orders based on whatever they want."

Matthijs

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