[olug] say goodbye to RSA <= 2048...

[Brian Wiese]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:31:12 -0500 (EST)
bwalenz <bwalenz at nebraskahardcore.com> wrote:

|On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Brian Wiese wrote:
|
|> Just in case anyone else has been living in a cave and missed this
too...
|> (I haven't been an avid /.'r in awhile) but it seems like everyone I
know
|> on campus has been talking about it, and teachers I've talked to and
|> such... I haven't seen much publicity elsewhere though...
|>
|> 	Factoring Breakthrough?
|> 	http://slashdot.org/articles/02/02/26/179206.shtml?tid=93
|
|Careful reading gives us some valuable information:
|
|The author isn't sure whether or not his "breakthrough" will even be
|applicable for current key sizes in use today.
|
|The larger area of concern is the fact that it appears this reduces the
|strength of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, even more so than standard RSA
|Cryptography.
|
|I'd like to add, again, in large friendly letters, don't panic. :)
|
|-Brett

I guess I was mostly reading this, I looked at Dan's paper... but too much
math, it started to confuse the bejezzes out of me... this was more down
to earth:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@wasabisystems.com/msg01830.html

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Brian Wiese
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