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RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Fri Dec 12 18:30:48 1997

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 21:38:46 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>

The RSA homepage has an article on a weakness involving eliptical curves.

Does anyone have any data on this?  Is the break as bad as they make it?

Unfortunatly, their web page does not have a whole lot of details beyond
marketing-speak.

Details would be helpful.  (Or at lest interesting...)

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