Message no. 1

From:	Jeremy Smith <jsmith@*****.ORG>
Subject:	Re: RSA 129
Date:	Fri, 9 Sep 1994 19:23:38 -0500

Yes, it did in fact only take 8 months to crack the RSA code, but you
must recall how many people were working on it.
I don't know the actual numbers, but I did read that very interesting
article. Something like 400,000 people working on it, from small pc's to
super-computers?

So, the average hacker would have taken 40 quintillion? years to crack
it, but not 400K people (or whatever the number was) working together on
Internet.


Still, it's a cool article, and a cool encoding formula.


---Jeremy Smith
Some people call me "J", some call me Jerm, girls-they just don't call me.