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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:11:22 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neum...@csl.sri.com> Subject: French Regulation of Primes? Perhaps realizing that his position as PRIME Minister had some mathematical implications, and certainly aware of France's history of trying to be able to monitor all encrypted traffic passing through his country, Prime Minister François Fillon has apparently decided to become the French Minister of Primes, decreeing that all primes used in public-key encryption within or transiting France must be approved by the French Government's newly established Département de Cryptographie. Apart from the potential for increased surveillance, this decree could actually constructively reduce the likelihood of a prime being used multiple times in different public keys -- a risk recently observed in various certificates that leads to opportunities for forged certificates and security compromises (RISKS-26.73). ------------------------------ Serait-ce d'ailleurs pour cela que la Chambre des Pairs n'existe plus en France depuis longtemps ? J'imagine que tout cela ne sera pas sans conséquence sur l'activité des réseaux en France. ;-). André --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
