[10395] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Feb 5 15:19:01 2002
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:25:09 -0800
To: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
Robert Harley <harley@argote.ch>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
At 2:25 AM -0800 2/5/02, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
>______________________________________________________________
>ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org
>57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:10:49 +0100 (CET)
>From: Robert Harley <harley@argote.ch>
>
>...
>
>This is public-key crypto, not symmetric, so a break of your RSA key
>means that all your encrypted traffic becomes readable rather than
>just one message.
IMHO, interactive protocols (e.g. certain modes of SSL/TLS) which are
subject to this attack should be retired. Non-interactive protocols (e.g.
PGP email), are much more difficult to fix.
Cheers - Bill
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