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- From: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: DES (Was: Re: 800MHz
- Message-ID: <1444.204.uupcb@ssr.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:34:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
- Reply-To: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio)
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- In message <23.2B4A0D74@purplet.demon.co.uk> Owen Lewis <Owen.Lewis
- purplet.demon.co.uk> said:
- -> Another "likelihood theory":
- ->
- -> What first world government permits the use of DES for the protection
- -> of classified material? Does the US government? I believe not.
- ->
- -> And while we are discussing theories, I believe James Bamforth, the NSA
- -> watcher, went on record some time ago with a claim that the cost to the US
- -> taxpayer for breaking each DES ciphertext is $56. Can anyone supply the
- -> assumptions from which he must have made this extrapolation?
-
- If the US has 250,000,000 people, the total cost is therefore
- 14,000,000,000 (14 trillion) dollars per ciphertext. Even if around a
- third of those people do not pay taxes, I think Mr. Bamforth was exaggerating
- a little.
-
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