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Olympian 
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If you e-mail me: 1. Please give me your handle name so that I can check your e-mail address that you are using to the e-mail address of your handle at the Elite board. If you don't provide a handle i will not answer!! 2. No AOL addies for gods sake!! I've been getting a lot of these, and while some questions are pretty benign other aren't. Due to this, I WILL NOT ANSWER ANY AOL E-MAILS!! 3. And please give me some time to answer your e-mails. I go to university, have to workout, eat, work etc...I'll answer your e-mails just give me 2-3 days. Sorry for the rant, its just I keep telling people this and they just don't listen. Godspeed     | ||
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Olympian
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Ex-infantry this isn't directed towards you, as you've acted in a respectful manner always. Godspeed | ||
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Mutant   
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That goes for me too. | ||
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Moderator
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AND GET AND ENCRYPTED EMAIL ACCOUNT!!! I'm deleting non-secure mail. | ||
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Olympian
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quote: Hushmail and Elitemail have the same chances of being decrypted as hotmail and others etc..... This is factually true.... Godspeed | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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quote: I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning for this - I'm not arguing with it - just want to know the reasoning. I'm a fairly big cryptography buff and I have no issues with hushmail's system, but I refuise to use hotmail... well, for anything I don't want read. if you mean from hushmail -> non-hushmail account - I agree, they are the same. but if it is hushmail -> hushmail (or hushmail licensed such as elitefitness) - I would argue with you on that one. ------------------ | ||
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Moderator
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I always thought hotmail and things like that traveled as smtp clear text (very easy to read), while the hush engine encrypted before transmission, so if someone is snopping your connection they would see garbage. | ||
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Olympian
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quote: Very correct if someone was using only a P3-1000Mhz processor w/128mb Ram. However, 128-bit encryption programs can be decrypted with 3 1000Mhz processors in parallel in a small amount of time. The federal government has a CRAY-YMP just for this task which can anhilate ANY 128-bit ancrypted file in like 1.0s. If you don't know what a CRAY is look it up. Commercial encryption programs are a joke. Godspeed | ||
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Moderator
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I wonder if they can crack 3des? Happy what's your take on this? | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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quote: hmm, while you have good intentions - you've just stepped out of your area of expertise and right smack into the middle of mine. if you want, I'll gladly go into great detail as to why you are wrong (and crays suck ass now - but I know what you mean by very fast systems, but crays are no longer the best - they are just a famous name). ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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quote: hell yeah - it has been done! (again, checkout distributed.net) it depends on what bit-depth you want to do it at, the lower the faster they can do it. anything at or below the 50's is "easy" and 64 approaches hard but is still doable - 128 is where it starts approaching impossible. you can crack any cipher given enough time - but the problem is, we don't have enough time. I will gladly go on, but I don't want to waste my breath if nobody is reading. ------------------ | ||
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Olympian
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quote: CRAY's are still quite good. For speed nowadays go get yourself a Quantum Computer. How's that for speed.....LOL Crack that 128-bit code in like one nanosecond.(Apparently someone at MIT was contracted by the defense department to build a quantum supercomputer). HappyScrappy as you know electrons have several excitable energy states , unlike binary code which is just 0's and 1's. Therefore this type of supercomputer would anhilate any other type of computer. I am in the aerospace industry after all. Nothing like a super-fast computer to control a plasma -based engine. Godspeed | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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quote: I still maintain that crays aren't so great - for the money, you are better off setting up a beowolf. ------------------ | ||
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Novice 
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Gentlemen and juiceheads, now you have found something I can talk about. The Diffie-Hellman public/private key and the rc-5 symmetric algorithms applied to 128 bit north american ( not global ) security system would take 10 to the 18 power years to break, if you were using parallel processing crays and had 1 trillion dollars to throw at the project. This info is part of a study done by the us govt. and several educational institutions. I do have all the graphs to back up this statement. In case you can't tell Oldbiker builds secure networks for a living. OB ------------------ [This message has been edited by oldbiker (edited April 12, 2001).] | ||
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Olympian
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quote: Cool, another CryptoFreak like myself...LOL What's your take on the Quantum computer then? You think its possible to build one? They're currently working on a protein-based computer to eradicate any possible data being stolen if it falls in the wrong hands. As you probably know once a biological organism is turned off it can never be turned back on. You sure about the 10exp18 time-frame??? The government uses a 256-bit encryption system that HAS been broken. One-time pads are theoretically unbreakable. The current best encryption software is 512-bit used by CIA, NSA etc.... Godspeed | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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quote: I would recommend reading the following books (pulled from my bookshelves): Most of those go over what we've been talking about in great detail. the quantum computer is such a cool thing - and I sure as hell hope it comes to light someday, but there are many huge hurdles to overcome still. Feynman was a brilliant guy - but he was just theorizing on the possibility of it. this is a cool thread - a nice break... ------------------ | ||
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Novice
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The graph that I have was developed mainly at MIT at the end of 2000. I don't do much work with crypto over 128 bit because that's all the private sector can use. I know several other govts like Germany publicly use 256 bit but it has holes in it. I haven't seen anything on protien based systems. ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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I think the protein stuff he is referring to is the biopolymer research being done. a good faq for this sort of thing exists here: ------------------ | ||
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Novice
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waaaayy over my head | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
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You guys are talking in foreign language to me....uh....guess I should take some computer classes or something. MR. BMJ | ||
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Novice
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I think everybody else bailed on us. ------------------ | ||
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Olympian
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Haha guys...LOL The protein based computer I was referring to was the RNA-based ones. e.g. using RNA as a sort of processor/hard disk. Once you start this "computer", the cells begin working so-to-speak", if you turn them off(like turning off a nerve cell), th data held in the RNA of that cell would never be able to be retrieved due to the fact the "computer" would not be aqble to be turned back on. As you know, it's not possible to erase anything from an HD unless you PHYSICALLY scratch out the sector(s) in question. Godspeed | ||
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Cool Novice 
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Keep in mind that the gov "pays" for CPU time on a Cray - it still treated like the old days of time share systems. I am not sure the cost anymore as I now longer work for that company, we ran the supercomputer center in Al. Very cool, as we owned some of the Cray's the gov paid hard money for time - they were just as tight fisted about soft money for the one Cray they owned. They really have to have a good reason to break crypto on a e-mail. You can talk about legal process, court orders, etc. many parts of the gov will look at you like "Sure we do..." but when it comes to spending money it suddenly becomes a problem | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by oldbiker: I think everybody else bailed on us. I seek not to know all the answers but to only understand the question Kwai Chang Caine, is that you???? | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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when I first started getting interested in crays (this was back before sgi bought them out... and haven't they since dropped them again?) - anyway, my favorite thing about it was that when you bought a cray, you got a guy that came with it. an engineer that at the time was making $50K just to maintain and run the thing. I thought that was hilarious - you open the box it comes with and out steps Joe, your new engineer that came with it  ------------------ | ||
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Novice
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Very good grasshopper. You are gaining enlightenment. OB ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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Ok in English for us Simpletons... which encryption program (for files on your hard drive and for email) would you guys suggest someone like us use?? Thanks |
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posted April 12, 2001 07:23 PM