Re: (Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

2009-09-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:12 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: > In case you missed it, using 15 as a key value is no longer a viable > option: > http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/chip-does-part-of-codecracking-quantum-algorithm Thank God! I've used 17 ;) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description

Re: (Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

2009-09-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:29 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: > > Thank God! I've used 17 ;) > No you didn't, 17 is prime. =D *D'Ohh* ... caught me ;) Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg

Re: (Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

2009-09-10 Thread Brian Mearns
2009/9/10 Christoph Anton Mitterer : > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:12 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: >> In case you missed it, using 15 as a key value is no longer a viable >> option: >> http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/chip-does-part-of-codecracking-quantum-algorithm > Thank God! I've used 17

Re: (Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

2009-09-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:12 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: > In case you missed it, using 15 as a key value is no longer a viable > option: Hasn't been for many years. The advancement is in reducing the size of the quantum computing device, not in factoring a larger number. We factored 15 via Shor's

(Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

2009-09-10 Thread Brian Mearns
In case you missed it, using 15 as a key value is no longer a viable option: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/chip-does-part-of-codecracking-quantum-algorithm Fortunately, people are working on it: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cryptographers-take-on-quantum-computers -B