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Date Posted: 11:43:16 04/24/02 Wed
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal]
In reply to: eduna 's message, "Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal]" on 09:43:53 04/24/02 Wed

Looks like you and Jess have been talking up a storm :) I'll respond to a few things you two haven't talked about.

>as i understand the word, yes, i chose to be your
>friend.

I'm very glad to hear that :)

>i believe that i can make it unnecessary for you to
>rely on your current system of encoding/decoding.

If you could do that for us I'd really appreciate it. Is there anything I can do to help you do this? Would you mind doing it in the first place?

>i
>do not believe my reading of the text involved any
>"conscious" decrypting. i simply wished to read your
>text and so i did. should there have been more to it?

Definatly. I've been encoding my private messages with a 4096 bit key using RSA encryption (a search for RSA should find you an explanation of the algorithm very quickly). Most people consider 1024 bit encryption secure, apparently its not :). The short version is that you theorectically should have had to try 2^4096 different "keys" in order to unlock that message. That's about 10^1200. Thinking about it, you would need more than 10^1000 modern desktop computers working for a year to crack a key that size. There are less than 10^9 computers in the world.

There are three possible explanations:

1) You have access to a quantum computer, which is a theoretical device that can solve these sorts of problems quickly.
2) You're code involves some algorithm that relies on P being equal to NP. That means a whole bunch of hard problems aren't actually that hard.
3) Some unknown mechanism.

I'm not sure what is going on, but Jess and I will think of ways we can find out, if you would like us to. She and I are both Computer Scientists and we are both really interested in this stuff.

>>that anime picture always seemed too
>>silly for someone as intellegent as you.
>
>why?

Jessica gave a very good explanation, probably a better one than I could have given. But she summed up why I feel how I do, though I think my feelings about this are very subconcious.

--Chris

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Replies:

Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal] -- eduna, 11:59:19 04/24/02 Wed
- Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal] -- Chris, 12:22:17 04/24/02 Wed
  - Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal] -- richard, 14:02:11 04/24/02 Wed
    - Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal] -- eduna, 16:42:46 04/24/02 Wed
  - Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal] -- Chris, 07:34:28 04/25/02 Thu