Re: Interpol cracks encryption in 2 weeks

"Doughboy" <anon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> According to this re****t, Interpol manage to gain access to 983
> encrypted files, using 10 computers running continuously for 2 weeks.
>
> It would be interesting to know what type of encryption it was, as 2
> weeks seems rather quick. If encryption can be cracked in such a short
> time, it rather weakens one of the UK Government's arguments for
> needing to extend the detention without charge limit for terrorism
> suspects.
>
>
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080516/twl-venezuela-colombia-rebels-interpol-4bdc673.html
> --
> "They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton.
> But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
> -- Carl Sagan

This doesn't say anything, nor does the short thread that
follows it.  Nobody seems to notice this.  Is the sci.crypt
audience so much less than I hoped for?

Titeotwawki -- mha  [sci.crypt 2008 May 17]