Irish blood donor records

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Wed Feb 20 04:12:30 EST 2008


It seems that disk containing records of the Irish Blood Transfusion
service seems to have been stolen in New York:

	http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0219/blood.html

Thankfully, the data was encrypted. The head of the IBTS said on
the news that there was a remote possibility of access, roughly
equivelent to winning the Euromillions Lottery 10 times in a row.
Based on the jackpot odds from:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroMillions

they are probably thinking around lg(76275360)*10 = 261.84, or 256
bits of key.

	David.

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