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<div><font color="#000000">"...<font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-3"> 2^128 is a very big number.</font></font><font
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<div><font color="#000000">Imagine a computer that is the size of a
grain of sand that can test keys against some encrypted data. Also
imagine that it can test a key in the amount of time it takes light to
cross it. Then consider a cluster of these computers, so many that if
you covered the earth with them, they would cover the whole planet to
the height of 1 meter. The cluster of computers would crack a 128-bit
key on average in 1,000 years.</font>"</div>
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>http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200607<span
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<div>Cute imagery. I wonder how true it is.</div>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">Don
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"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas<br>
dgibbs@jpl.nasa.gov<x-tab>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">818 653-9531 -
cell<x-tab>
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JABBERWOCKY</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">Sec 316, Flight S/W & Data Systems
- Group B, GN&C and FSW Testing</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font color="#000000">Opinions expressed are not necessarily
those of JPL/Caltech or NASA</font></tt></div>
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