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Re: RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Dec 13 19:10:06 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 19:09:35 -0800 (PST)
To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.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 least interesting...)
If I understand them correctly, they report that weak curves exist,
which has long been known.
In fact what they say makes no sense at all, and was clearly written
by a marketing man.
Perhaps a new category of weak curve has been discovered. It is hard
to tell.
Perhaps intentionally hard to tell, looks like classic FUD to me.
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