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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!rainrgnews0!stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.cvo.oneworld.com!news.pdx.oneworld.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.interpath.net!iss-rtp.isscad.com!avanticorp.com!jlnance From: jlnance@avanticorp.com (Jim Nance) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:50:19 GMT Organization: Integrated Silicon Systems, Inc. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4i3ver$ep1@dns2.avanticorp.com> References: <4gi6t6$3h9@lace.colorado.edu> <1996Feb25.152559.8977@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> <4gvchb$ln5@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <4h7rdd$qeu@park.uvsc.edu> <4hi93v$qas@keltia.freenix.fr> <4hsv73$d3h@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pegasus2.rtp.avanticorp.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.7.8.0) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:91599 comp.os.linux.development.system:19282 comp.os.linux.networking:31568 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2637 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2455 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15387 In article <4hsv73$d3h@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert wrote: >So you are arguing that the product of two prime numbers >renders the prime numbers themselves "secret". > >I claim that since the search space is known, they are "obscure". Would you make the same claim about any secret key algorythm that used a fixed length key. Jim