"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes:
>
> I would have thought spending at least hundreds of millions off
> dollars and (as importantly) at least months of time would have been
> considered "unattractive" enough to encourage other methods of getting
> at your data like breaking in to your physical location. Silly me. I
> guess I missed the concept behind crypto.

The concept behind crypto is to confuse, scramble and obfuscate. When
it was first designed for and employed in computers the existing 
mathematical models, computer muscle and modes of analysis were
thought to assure unbreakability.  Now the use has morphed into
a race condition where present mathematical models and future 
computer muscle, coupled with existing modes of analysis are
thought to assure breakability.

Peace,

Petr