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Re: [PLUG] PGP ADK Vulnerability.
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At 4:33 PM -0400 8/27/00, Vik Bajaj wrote:
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.
15 years in crypto is still pretty new when you compare it
against things like DES, RC4, etc.
LDR
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