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Re: [PLUG] PGP ADK Vulnerability.
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:13:10PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> I think it's simply the first finding against EC. EC is new
> enough that it's taken this long for someone to find out a way to
> crack small key length - though it's also been around long enough to
> show that it was HARD to find that hole.
ECC is 15 years old. The mathematics of DLP on elliptic curves
vs. finite fields (for example. ECC vs. DH/ElGamal) has an extremely
long history.
-V.
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