with chip makers playing with chips having 64 cores printed in silicon... someplace i read the ratios on this,-- if you make the key a little longer the key gets much harder to break. in public key encryption though you have to factor the product of the two large prime numbers -- which i'm told is no easy task. i've often wondered about this as lists of large prime numbers are not hard to come by... so-- start someplace and start running divides... trouble is though you can't use the hardware instruction set: the numbers are way to large
what does an x64 chip do? divide a 64 bit integer into a 128 bit dividend to yield a 64 but quotient and a 64 bit remainder? dunno but you have to do the same thing but using what? a 2048 or 4096 bit dividend? (I'm not a mathematician) what if they put 8192 cores on a chip? who would have such a machine? NSA. the smart money would bet they would have it -- /MIKE
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