[NCLUG] I was hacked!

[S. Luke Jones]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:51:08AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 100,000,000:1 odds are a key-space of around 27 bits.  That's with million of
> attempts made every week (one could say 100 million).  The odds of a 2048 bit
> key being broken in 1,000 random attempts is 10^614:1.  That's a very big
> number.  Isn't 10^256 on the order of the number of atoms composing the
> planet earth?

There are about 10^80 particles in the universe. I believe that is
"fundamental" particles like electrons and protons, not funky new
age crap like gluons, magnetic monopoles, quarks, snarks, and boojums.

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S. Luke Jones => luke-vortex-sixthdimension-SUNW-com