Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?

2003-10-28 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, One of the local Linux user groups had a talk at their meeting as well as some extended discussion on the mailing list regarding RSA keys and factoring. In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The basi

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:12 PM 10/27/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >spend pennies. Eventually you gotta figure that'll eat into the invasionary >funds, no? (Or am I being naive?) To a troll-like extent. The government left the gold (etc) standard so they could print money to fund wars. They will also not hesitate t

MQV -> was Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption

2003-10-28 Thread Nymious
> ECC: "Our algorithm is so good it has been >licensed by the NSA". Yes. ... the MQV exchange is the 'best' authentication/key exchange protocol known. Using large ECC keys would hedge against even breakthroughs in quantum computing. __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-28 Thread Joe Block
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 26, 2003, at 3:57 PM, Jurgen Botz wrote: 1) The general public doesn't really use crypto... partly because it's "off the social radar", partly because it's just too difficult, etc., etc. As a result the TLAs can employ the kind of Orwellian mas

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
"YOU want to do the encryption, not the ISP who can be secretly subpoenaed to hand over the plain text." Well, that too! My point is and has been "crypto is econnomics" (to paraphrase Tim May during one of his moments of clarity). Better to get 'them' to get a subpeona and make 'em expend the

ECC and blinding.

2003-10-28 Thread Neil Johnson
Will ECC work with blinding (Chaum, Brands, etc.) techniques? Just curious. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2003-10-28 Thread Declan O'Reilly
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:01:50 -0600 (CST) "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one here who finds this "requirement" excessive? My god: are > we looking to keep these secrets for 50 years, or 5 (or more) years? > > Or am I missing something? > > -- > Yours, > J.A. T

Re: "If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-28 Thread Tim May
On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 08:50 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: "Basically they say things like "If you think the government can't break all the encryption schemes that we have, you're nuts." This guy was a math major too, so he understands the principles of crypto." Basically, the answer was h

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-10-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:41 PM -0600 10/27/03, Neil Johnson wrote: >Will ECC work with blinding (Chaum, Brands, etc.) techniques? I've heard serious people discuss it with a straight face, at least. Chaumian blinding is simply big number multiplication, right? And Chaum's double-spending detection is an M-of-N ha