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Re: NEC (Yet another PKC?) Network Encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Rosing)
Tue Dec 16 00:40:37 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 23:17:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Rosing <cryptech@Mcs.Net>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199712151719.LAA25350@dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com>
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 tamaster@technologist.com wrote:
> The method involves a more complex function than the elliptic curve and
> will be impossible to break for at least some years, the officials said.
Interesting.
> Elliptic encryption uses a three-dimensional function called the elliptic
> curve.
Well, it's only 2D if you don't use projective coordinates. And those
have been proven too slow for several years now.
So what's the "more complex function"? It's not the complexity of the
function that is important, it's the complexity of finding the log of the
function (if c = a op b, then finding a knowing only c and b is the
"log").
Since the news leads the research world, I suspect it's bogus, or the news
guys are confusing public and secret key again :-)
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
