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Old September 26th 03, 07:55 PM
phil hunt
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:08:36 -0400, John Hairell wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:51:14 +0000 (UTC), (Mike
Andrews) wrote:

In (rec.radio.amateur.homebrew), phil hunt wrote:

Modern crypto is good enough to withstand all cryptanalytic
attacks.


[stuff snipped]

I love it when people make blanket statements.

There's a big building full of computer equipment over at Ft. Meade
that's not sitting there just generating heat.


Yes, it is processing non-encrypted signals traffic, mostly.

I would be very surprised if modern symmetric and assymetric ciphers
are prone to cryptanalitic attack.

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