home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!linus!linus.mitre.org!bistromath.mitre.org!ptrei
- From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
- Subject: Re: Registering keys
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.161944.19998@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bistromath.mitre.org
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- References: <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:19:44 GMT
- Lines: 27
-
- In article <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl> garfield@utopia.hacktic.nl (garfield) writes:
- >Why all the fuss about registering keys?? If they want them.. give them
- >what they want.. If everyone registeres 10 or 15 keys and each key is 10K
- >in size.... Then they have a slight problem of storage...
-
- >garfield@utopia.hacktic.nl
-
- A problem, but not an unsurmountable one.
-
- 15 keys, 10^4 length = 1.5E5 bytes/person (I'm being generous - I could
- have assumed you meant bits).
-
- World pop = ~ 5E9
-
- implies 7.5E14 bytes storage required.
-
- The largest online storage device I've heard of is a 12 Terabyte
- (1.2E13) device, which is currently being researched by NASA.
-
- The appropriate government agencies would have no trouble purchasing
- the 63 machines needed. For the US population, you'd only need 3
- or 4.
-
- Wait a decade, and you'll have that much at home.
-
- Peter Trei
- ptrei@Mitre.org
-