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Re: objectivity and factoring analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Sat Apr 20 15:07:23 2002
To: Cryptography <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
From: Paul Crowley <paul@ciphergoth.org>
Date: 20 Apr 2002 19:02:55 +0100
In-Reply-To: Adam Back's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:51:59 +0100"
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Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> writes:
> - Bob Silverman, former RSA factoring expert, observes on sci.crypt,
> quote:
>
> > At this point, there is noone left at RSA Labs who has the expertise
> > or knowledge to judge Bernstein's work.
Silverman is AFAICT the most knowledgeable person to have commented on
all this. He has no axe to grind, unless you count the inexcusably
unfair treatment he received from RSA.
All of his sci.crypt comments are available with this search:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bernstein+group:sci.crypt.*+author:amms716%40aol.com&filter=0
His off-the-cuff estimate of a good new recommended key size was 2048 bits.
It would be good to hear more from other integer factorisation experts.
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