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List:       cypherpunks
Subject:    Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       2002-03-26 1:27:36
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> - The physical properties of such a machine (size, power, cooling, etc.)
>   seem implausible to me.

The bigger question is not predicting the effect of Bernstein's
paper, but rather predicting how many similar ideas will be discovered
in the next 30 years, or have already been discovered but not
revealed.

We can see computers and decreased cost/speed of communication as societal
intelligence amplification devices. Both these two variables are increasing
(even if the effect is on order of ln < e < sqrt), but it would be naive
to presume there won't be more of them.

--
 Julian Assange        |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
                       |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and
 proff@iq.org          |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
 proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

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