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Subject: Re: des
From: potlicker @ morebbs . com
Organization: MORE BBS
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 16:05:00
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

My last couple of postings drew serious flames from .de
That brings on a song   Yes I know you were afraid of that
Ok then I wont sing it

Back to business   Someone threw me a scrap about PGP and DES and I 
thought it might be appropriate to share it with you

>re crypto keys... A member of our organization, along with 3 other guys, 2
>in England and the other here, using their computers during periods when
>there was not another task to do (over a 3 month period) were able to
>crack a 320 bit key used in PGP.  We consider the minimum length key
>for good security with pgp to be 1024 bits, with some people using 2048.
>I have never doubted NSA's ability to read DES traffic.            

                             PoT_LiCkeR (or is it PoTnLiQuOr?)


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