Re: why I like having a proprietary archive format

[nugundam@netcom.com (Joseph Lee)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
:    PGP is a publically encryption format that uses the products of
: very large primes to encode stuff up; a 2048 bit key is essentially
: uncrackable (see millions of years above) without math coming up with
: a fast factorization algorithm. [None is known to date, and so PGP and
: related algorithms are trusted]

As I remember, a math prof and a bunch of his students decoded PGP
encryption without the key, given 3 months of computer time and a lot of
math theory.  It was some story I read a while ago.
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