[AusNOG] From across the ditch

[Joshua D'Alton]

How is 2048bit key encyrption an arms race?

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On Apr 25, 2013 8:22 AM, "Nick Gale" <nickgale at gmail.com> wrote:

> All that would happen would be an arms race in encryption/decryption
> technologies. As one is able to be cracked so another will rise to replace
> it. Thats not really different than today though but it may just be more
> apparent.
>
> Also people are becoming more aware in general about their security and
> protecting themselves better. Guberments are starting to realize they are
> losing the ability to monitor their citizens where necessary by law, (It
> doesn't help that these same guberments abused the laws in the first place
> though) and are starting to look at ways to get that control back.
>
>
> On 25 April 2013 06:07, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>>
>> > requirements for operators to break encyrption
>>
>> The encryption stuff as noted in the article (surely it's wrong?) is both
>> insane and impossible, for all practical purposes - not to mention highly
>> undesirable.
>>
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