Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ...
by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:37PM
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Given moores law the only encryption that has ever been acceptable is that which is impossible to break within any reasonable time frame.
Taking slightly longer for a computer to open your files while I put my feet up and drink coffee doesn't suggest an increased degree of security unless it requires a truly substantial investment in hardware or time. The encryption in question could have been broken on a home computer 4 years later in 2 weeks.
Seen as bad is a poor benchmark it WAS bad.
The legal limitations on crypo export is a bad argument on so many fronts its hard to pick one.
Taking slightly longer for a computer to open your files while I put my feet up and drink coffee doesn't suggest an increased degree of security unless it requires a truly substantial investment in hardware or time. The encryption in question could have been broken on a home computer 4 years later in 2 weeks.
Seen as bad is a poor benchmark it WAS bad.
The legal limitations on crypo export is a bad argument on so many fronts its hard to pick one.
- The legal matter of exporting encryption was well on its way to settled by 2000 see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States where such restrictions were found to be illegal in 1999.
- Author sold a higher grade of encryption including abroad
- Author either didn't care about the law or would have been afoul of it with his paid version.
- The laws against exporting encryption were a useless farce that never did anything useful