} > Fantaside:
} > I want fast symmetric kilobit-key encryption. Search space of 10^300.
}
} Search space of 10^300 = 1000^100 = 2^1000.
} 1kbit of quantum dots and your encryption is useless.
Apart from the possible difficulty of making a kilobit quantum computer,
I hadn't heard that they would be useful for cracking symmetric ciphers.
They could factor numbers happily, thus bye-bye RSA and Blum-Blum-Shup;
can they do tons of IDEA or RC4 attempts as well?
James Roger wrote that RC4 is very simple. I know; that's why it's even
weirder. I was told it was: very short and simple (I've seen the code),
not robust (switch two lines and it becomes simple to break; as with
DES, an argument that there is no back door), and possessed of an impure
spectrum, which nonetheless none of the cypherpunks had been able to
exploit, at least usefully. I believe this qualifies as weird.
Actually, I think Hal's name was mentioned in connection with the
analysis of the thing. Are any of my facts wrong?
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