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Re: RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan)
Sat Dec 13 19:06:59 1997
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:09:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
cc: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971213162233.006c85a0@schloss.li>
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Black Unicorn wrote:
> At 09:38 PM 12/11/97 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> >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...)
>
> I was actually very aggravated by this page.
>
> It kept referring to "certain" ECC which had "flaws" but refused to
> identify which ECC method was flawed, and how it was flawed. This was so
> clearly a marketing spin (keep anyone from using any ECC and thus
> maintaining market share) that I could not help but be annoyed with RSA's
> decision to make their site's priority hard-core-commercial rather than
> informational. One expects more from the "Most Trusted Name in
> Cryptography."
I expected more of them as well. That RSA patent expiration date must
keep looking closer and closer. I wonder what other such press releases
closer to that date...
"PGP's products proven to cause brain cancer!"
"Non-RSA crypto - Unsafe at any encryption speed!"
"CryptoTerrorsts may be selling you Dangerous Curves!"
Ghad, I hate marketing!
Any recomendations for a tripple DES library out there? I do not need
speed, but I do need something that is clear and not spagetti code. (I
have an idea for a 3DES varient that I want to try. I am sure it will
make a strong encryption method, I am just not certain about the
decryption part. As in, if it will. One way encryption is secure, but a
little too secure for what I want...)
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