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Perhaps things will change quickly with some mathematics concept whose name escape from me at the moment.

Quote from nononsense:

Let me add this:
I picked this up in the context of a discussion about cracking a 128 bit cryptographic key.
A participant estimated, it would take about 107902830708060144 years to brute force a 128 bit key with this computer.

nononsense
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PS: How many years would it take to find that Holy Grail? Haven't figured that one out.
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Perhaps things will change quickly with some mathematics concept whose name escape from me at the moment.
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Yes, but things are not that simple. In fact this is known as 'Cryptoanalysis' in mathematics.

In fact, just a few weeks ago, some Chinese (or Japanese) came up for the first time with an algorithmic method to break the hallowed DES. In fact an army of mathematicians had looked for about 20 years for this!

Today, some cryptoanalists 'speculate' about the relative merits of the now going AES cipher as compared to Serpent and Blowfish. It may take many, many years before anything may come out of this. For one (or two?) of these ciphers nobody has been able yet to come up with a set of equations to be solved.

Of course, you are possibly right in assuming that before Blue Gene is done with its brute force attack, a clever cryptoanalist may have come up with something.

Ever since the WWII enigma and Turing saga, cryptoanalysis is a most fascinating topic.
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
(Bruce Schneier)
 
Yeah I know cryptoanalysis quite well, I am now responsible for such a unit in the army. I will have a look if I can find the name of the mathematics topics.

DES has been cracked a long time ago (97-98 if I remember right). I think you are refering to the method developed by these two chinese guys who pretended they were able to reduce by a considerable factor the SHA-1 hash algorithm.

AES is definitely becoming a standard nowadays. Other are safe too, but the encrypted data must have less than 10 years of foreseeable existence...

For the future elliptic curves are very promising.

Quote from nononsense:

Yes, but things are not that simple. In fact this is known as 'Cryptoanalysis' in mathematics.

In fact, just a few weeks ago, some Chinese (or Japanese) came up for the first time with an algorithmic method to break the hallowed DES. In fact an army of mathematicians had looked for about 20 years for this!

Today, some cryptoanalists 'speculate' about the relative merits of the now going AES cipher as compared to Serpent and Blowfish. It may take many, many years before anything may come out of this. For one (or two?) of these ciphers nobody has been able yet to come up with a set of equations to be solved.

Of course, you are possibly right in assuming that before Blue Gene is done with its brute force attack, a clever cryptoanalist may have come up with something.

Ever since the WWII enigma and Turing saga, cryptoanalysis is a most fascinating topic.
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
(Bruce Schneier)
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, Java+Eclipse IDE is absolutely killer. Refactoring, reference searching, code completion, real-time syntax validation and compilation. Just beautiful.. my productivity has increased by an order of magnitude after learning all the features.
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Have you tried a recent release of Netbeans ? I havn't tried Eclipse so I can't compare. I used to think Netbeans was almost an impediment to getting anything done. But the latest release really is pretty good and quite fast. All the stuff you mention and also a profiler which works quite well without the profiled application taking an excessive performance hit. And at last what is touted as a decent forms designer though I havn't tried it yet.
 
Quote from science_trader:

Yeah I know cryptoanalysis quite well, I am now responsible for such a unit in the army. I will have a look if I can find the name of the mathematics topics.

DES has been cracked a long time ago (97-98 if I remember right). I think you are refering to the method developed by these two chinese guys who pretended they were able to reduce by a considerable factor the SHA-1 hash algorithm.

AES is definitely becoming a standard nowadays. Other are safe too, but the encrypted data must have less than 10 years of foreseeable existence...

For the future elliptic curves are very promising.
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Yes, it should read SHA-1.
 
Nope.. I try to stick with open/free stuff whenever I can. A lot of people at work use and rave about IntelliJ though. Also, the only profiler I could find for eclipse sucls. JProfiler is nice but non-free.

--Stephen

Quote from dcraig:

Have you tried a recent release of Netbeans ? I havn't tried Eclipse so I can't compare. I used to think Netbeans was almost an impediment to getting anything done. But the latest release really is pretty good and quite fast. All the stuff you mention and also a profiler which works quite well without the profiled application taking an excessive performance hit. And at last what is touted as a decent forms designer though I havn't tried it yet.
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Quote from stephencrowley:

Nope.. I try to stick with open/free stuff whenever I can. A lot of people at work use and rave about IntelliJ though. Also, the only profiler I could find for eclipse sucls. JProfiler is nice but non-free.

--Stephen
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Netbeans is free and open source.
 
Well don't I look silly. :P I might check it out one day.. but right now I have too much time invested in learning eclipse that i dont have the time to spend learning something else.

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Netbeans is free and open source.
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Quote from stephencrowley:

Well don't I look silly. :P I might check it out one day.. but right now I have too much time invested in learning eclipse that i dont have the time to spend learning something else.
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Yes, I'm in the reverse position. Can't justify the time to learn Eclipse.
 
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