| RSA Challenge |
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| After
inventing their scheme (1977), |
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| RSA
challenged people to break it |
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| • | Their first key was broken in 1994 using 1000 |
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| computers over 8 months |
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| • | Their secret message: THE MAGIC WORDS |
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| ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE |
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| Doomed? No. There are many
other 129 |
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| digit keys, or if people get nervous make |
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| 200 digit keys or more … breaking gets |
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| harder very fast; encrypt/decrypt doesn’t |
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