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Re: [Cryptography] What do we know? (Was 'We cannot trust' ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew cooke)
Sat Dec 21 17:29:38 2013
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:21:23 -0300
From: andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The deal was reported at the time, I heard it as 'NSA pays RSA $10 million
> to make ECC available in BSafe'. Which was not at all surprising given that
> we know RSA2048 (maybe RSA4096) is the end of the line for practical RSA.
do you have any reference for that? i am trying to find support using
google's search with date constraints, but am not finding anything.
the nsa paid $25m for certicom's patents according to
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/324 - maybe that is what you remember?
all the reports on the $10m deal emphasise that it is new information; if it
was reportd at the time then that is quite significant.
andrew
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