On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:32:45 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine
<ewill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
>In short: a different metric is probably called for.
>One useful one might be suggested by a French effort:
>basically, it took about a week for a French server farm
>to crack an SSL code of length 40 bits, some time ago.
I guess you need to replace the ID every 5 years or so to upgrade the
technology. Hopefully you can keep abreast of cracking technology.
Perhaps you can just replace the cards, and mail them out. Ideally
they would be useless to anyone but the assigned owner. You might be
able to revoke cards with a central database.
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