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cows	Oct 11 2005, 04:21 PM
Unregistered	Firstly sorry for the username confusion - i am the same user as --cows-- but i am getting it sorted. You guys all make a valid point and i bow to the superiority of you all especially as you are all older than me and have a hell of a lot of more knowledge than me. But, how do we actually KNOW 100% that there is no super computer that IS told by criptographers how to break ceaser ciphers and Vigenere ciphers and all the others - why wouldit not be possible. Sure other businesses COULD buy hundreds of computers and set their purpose to deciphering email codes, but the mere fact that there is no limit on the amount of computers that a company can have or searches to make sure that what they say they are doing, is true. Then they may be put off from trying to work out a way to get a computer to do it for them. Because nobody is trying to stop them, they will not try. Just like if somebody says "Do not watch T.V. after midnight," or "Don't eat the glue" your first reaction is to want to watch the t.v. after midnight and eat the glue whilst doing so. But, if nobody said anything about the t.v. or glue. The chances are that you wouldn't watch the t.v. after midnight and you definately woudn't eat the glue. Same applies, because companies are not told not to buy lots of computers to break email ciphers, they won't. I know it's reverse phsichology and all but it is true to an extent, obviously as an adult you wouldn't eat the glue, you would do something else but you get the point. There is a joint operation thing going on at the moment where you donate your Processor speed to a company while you are not using it (say from 12:00 am to 6:00am) and they send the computer 'missions' to complete in that time or to have a go at. Surely if you had the processor power of over 1 million computers it would be possible to break a 128 bit code or even a 256 bit code. Why not. Sure it may be hard to do, but most things in life are. Sure there may be reports that say that it is not true - maybe they are lies. This is very argumenattive i know but why is it so hard to believe that this is not possible. The world of computers is sofisticated enough to send an email in under a second and download gigabytes of files in under 5 minutes. Why shouldn't this be possible? Also - just to bug the hell out of everyone and prove the point a little further PROVE IT --cows--
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