Re: crypto delay (Notes from Non-meeting)

At 10:24 AM 4/4/2002 -0800, Andrew Daviel wrote:
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>Moores Law will surely bring us mobile devices with enough power to
>do whatever crypto is necessary, maybe even by the time the protocol is
>ready. There is a limit to offering enhanced service on obsolete devices
>- if the device is too old to have location capability, then you can't di
>it at all. (I believe that as device speed rises, so does the
>required key length for crypto to be considered secure,

I disagree here. Regarding a non-stationary or static piece of information
(national secret type) , a 128 bit key length should be sufficient if used by a
good encryption algorithm. I submit if that key length isn't good enough, a new
algorithm should be chosen, not a new key length.

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Received on Thu Apr 4 16:37:30 2002