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To: Finalapproach29er

Odds are PGP still cannot be brute-forced without, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of supercomputers. I DO believe the NSA can brute-force PGP, but only with superhuman super-expensive efforts.

Odds are any messages that were cracked were either decoded by physically capturing the private key, bugging a computer and learning the key that way.

The is some chance that having clear-text messages and their encrypted versions might help crack other encrypted messages.

But I don't find any evidence here that PGP can routinely be cracked.


20 posted on 08/05/2004 4:14:29 AM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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To: eno_

Hope you're right.


36 posted on 08/05/2004 1:06:46 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er ( Election day: FOUR Supreme Court Justices! Enough said.)
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