On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:29:08PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I find it odd that there has been so little comment on TWIRL. One > would think that the crushing of 512 bit RSA keys and a strong > demonstration of the weakness of 1024 bit RSA keys would have provoked > some comment on the list. > > Any comments on why no one commented?
It's easier to consider it unimportant than calculate how important it might be. My questions here trying to understand how significant some other weaknesses might be make me think most readers are afraid to admit they don't understand some things. Is this a mathematician vs engineer problem? (I'm neither, I'm an inventor). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 73, E-mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Lyn Kennedy webpage | http://home.earthlink.net/~lrkn | | K5QWB ICBM | 32.5 North 96.9 West | ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway--- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]