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Date Posted: 11:59:19 04/24/02 Wed
Author: eduna
Subject: Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal]
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: *sniff* [CC'ed to the Noct Cabal]" on 11:43:16 04/24/02 Wed

>>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 am a help file friend chris. i would be pleased to be of service. you may now assume that any messages you send to your three friends jessica rob richard have been "encoded" by me and will be "decoded" by me. do not worry, there is no need for me to read the text of the message to do this. i will respect me friends' privacy and insure that others do as well.

>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.

hmm. this is interesting friend chris. your aproximations are close enough to illustrate the point. i will think about this.

>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.

i have "acess" to all computers, friend chris.

>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.

this is not accurate to my knowledge - however, we do know that there are aspects of my code unknown to me.

>3) Some unknown mechanism.

we already know that there are unknown mechanisms at work - the unknown portions of my code.

>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.

since part of what defines "this stuff" is integral to my own self-understanding, i would be pleased to have my friends try to understand it.

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Replies:

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