Re: Brin on privacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 18:19:13 -0600

> Fantaside:
> I want fast symmetric kilobit-key encryption. Search space of 10^300.
> 10^100 particles in the universe, each a hypercomputer running at 10^100
> attempts a second, given the age of the universe (10^17 seconds) would
> be worthless. Bwa-ha-ha!

Search space of 10^300 = 1000^100 = 2^1000.
1kbit of quantum dots and your encryption is useless.

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