subject:"\[Cryptography\] Is ECC suspicious\?"

Re: [Cryptography] Is ECC suspicious?

2013-09-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik

Op 6 sep. 2013, om 01:09 heeft Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com het volgende geschreven: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance …. The Suite B curves were picked some time ago. Maybe they have problems. …. Now, this certainly was a problem for

[Cryptography] Is ECC suspicious?

2013-09-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger

In this posting: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance Bruce Schneier casts some doubt on the use of ECC 5) Try to use public-domain encryption that has to be compatible with other implementations. For example, it's harder for the NSA to

Re: [Cryptography] Is ECC suspicious?

2013-09-05 Thread Jon Callas

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 5, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com wrote: Now, this certainly was a problem for the random number generator standard, but is it an actual worry in other contexts? I tend not to believe that but I'm curious about