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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/13 19:02, Martijn Grooten wrote: > There has been some fuss made (in a BlackHat presentation that got > picked up in the press) about recent developments in discrete > logarithms, another 'hard' problem that's important for > cryptography, and again, it's not really proven that it's hard. > Here, in some very special cases, it turns out to be not as hard as > one thought. Most experts believe that these cases are too special > to have any serious consequences, but it can't ever be 100% > exclused that one day someone makes a major breakthrough - or that > someone, like the NSA, has already done so. Forcing the use of such "special cases" is one possible method of creating a "backdoor". Bad cryptography, by either accident or design, is far more likely with proprietary than open source software too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIq9QcACgkQsoRLMhsZpFffugCcCE6buUqPSrBxDQHqwfkC7E8O ecQAnicL3NNmeivngReRFYpQEr5P0+LQ =v8o1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq