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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: DES export regulations. And what to do about it!
Message-ID: <1991Jan04.130100.8499@micromuse.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 91 13:01:00 GMT
References: <1991Jan02.202703.8608@decuac.dec.com> <1562@inews.intel.com> <1991Jan04.022637.12550@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
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In article <1991Jan04.022637.12550@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>
>potentially very much, since you can make your keys (passwords) longer
>when the crackers' machines speed catches up. how about a key with
>1000 *digits* compared to 56 *bits* ?!

RSA. Excuse my ignorance, but what is RSA - I would like to keep up
:-) I presume you can tell me but not give me any example code ?
Similar to DES ?

If RSA has been around a while - sorry about asking, but cryptography
is only a passing interest.

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