Private data protection.

[Ilja O.]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Vinc Duran <uberpfloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could make it longer too. I mean you could require receiving multiple
> sms's. It could be a very long key.
>

Why bother?
Even using only alphanumeric characters (I've counted 62 characters)
there are more than 10^216 possible keys [1]. That means that somebody
would want to break this system and would be sending to you 1 message
per second it would require him about 3*10^207 years just to reach 10%
probability of sending correct key. (Or about 10^216 years to get 0.5%
probability).

That will never happen.

And I think that you'll get suspicious receiving long meaningless
messages all these years. (Also phone will quite likely to become too
old to use with cellular networks by that time.

[1] 122180736803535480589223350267339719222459907508488666962777725357980522800709073153600165928612142210232085454876524842926435178601087679967305970361415808918724004919642128974801342733314107009534358023113252274176
 to be exact.