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Re: RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Sat Dec 13 19:09:54 1997
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:22:33 -0600
To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
In-Reply-To: <199712120650.WAA06814@www.ctrl-alt-del.com>
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."
