a lot = 1 other person?

 

Calm down man. Quantum computers notwithstanding, it will always be easier to increase keyspace than it will be to brute force crack the same key. Distributed.net is working on RSA Labs 72-bit key right now, but the amount of time required to encrypt something with a massively larger key isn't a big deal - say, 512 bit or even 1024 bit.

 

ahhahah hahahah :lmfao:

 

:werd: it's projected that :

The odds are 1 in 268,365 that we will wrap this thing
up in the next 24 hours. (This also means that we'll
hit 100% in 268,365 days at yesterday's rate.)

this is with a huge shit load of computers trying to crack it. I'm part of a team that Click heads and it takes a long time for 1 key.

 

Er, for those who don't know about distributed.net -- its like SETI@Home. A client application uses your idle processor cycles to work on a block of math, then return the result to the distributed.net server.

http://www.distributed.net/rc5/

 

Yes but increasing keyspace requires going through a lot of red tape. Brute force may be impossible, but there are ways you can smarten your search space.

 

off topic:
i think p2p should be the basis for web browsers nowadays.
this would make downloads much faster as well as lower bandwidth needs of sites... downloading of files would be done an a person to person basis, and all in all, if everyone behaves nothing bad should happen, but there are certain assholes around..

 

If everyone behaved we wouldn't have criminals.

 

Red tape? What are you talking about?