Jean-David Beyer wrote: >I imagine if the NSA really wanted to decrypt a gpg-encrypted message, they >have the resources to do it. It would probably take them a while if they had >to use brute force
No, they can's do it by brute force. Look even at the power requirements to do such a calculation: we're talking about an energy consumption that is more that the entire sun will radiate during its entire lifetime. I'm pretty sure that's beyond anything even the NSA can deploy. If they are able to decrypt pgp/gpg, it will be because they either broke an algorithm or implementation of it, or they have obtained the key by other means (keylogger, hidden camera, tempest, virus, torture). -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
