10 Jun
2007
10 Jun
'07
4:38 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 21:26 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
who is we
we is you and me and the rest of the 6+ billion humans ;)
in other words it is unbreakable
Not forever. At a time DES was considered to be unbreakable. But now it is very much breakable and that too in a practical amount of time. Similarly, RSA will become breakable as the technology advances.
Unbreakable is actually the wrong word to use for encryption schemes. RSA is breakable even today but it'll take an exponentially large ( read: practically not viable ) amount of time to break. So it is as good as "unbreakable" - at the moment.
The only truly unbreakable encryption scheme is one time pad :)
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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi