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Re: [Cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kuehling)
Mon Sep 30 10:06:21 2013
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From: David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@posteo.de>
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:42:54 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5248C0B2.6090406@echeque.com> (James A. Donald's message of
"Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:07:14 +1000")
Cc: Perrys crypto list <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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>>>>> "James" =3D=3D James A Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:
> Gregory Maxwell on the Tor-talk list has found that NIST approved
> curves, which is to say NSA approved curves, were not generated by the
> claimed procedure, which is a very strong indication that if you use
> NIST curves in your cryptography, NSA can read your encrypted data.
Just for completeness, I think this is the Mail you're referring to:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/029956.html
David
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