Large Primes

[Mary Hawking]

In article <0208181447480P.00851@osborne>, Adrian Midgley 
<akm@92tr.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Around 18 August 2002, people wrote:
>
>> > Another possibility is that lifetimes may be extended to well beyond 100
>> > years in 100 tears time....
>
>(specifically that should read
>"in 100 years time, 100 year old people's anticipated residual lifetime may
>be considerably increased coampared to now"  - otherwise it is SEP)
>
>> The lifetime of some information most certainly does and it is information
>> and not human lifespan that is the proper matter for cipher and
>> cryptosystem design to address.
>
>Well, that is clearly not wrong in itself, but pragmatically around here,  if
>I can make a reasonable effort that keeps my patients records and
>communications secure for the rest of their lifetime and mine, neither of us
>is going to be bothered by subsequent events, so it is a reasonable place to
>start worrying, I'd say.
>

Cheer up!
What are the chances that any EPR - whether or not encrypted - will be 
readable in 100 years time?
Mary Hawking

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