On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:23:11PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
Moti Young and others wrote a book back in the 90's (or perhaps) 80's,
that detailed the strength of various RSA key lengths over time. I am
too lazy to look up the reference or locate the book on my bookshelf.
Moti: help me out
On 19/09/13 00:23 AM, Lucky Green wrote:
According to published reports that I saw, NSA/DoD pays $250M (per
year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of
only one such effort. That effort involved DoD/NSA paying $10M to a
leading cryptographic library provider to both
ianG i...@iang.org writes:
One mystery is left for me. Why so much? It clearly doesn't cost that much
money to implement the DRBG, or if it did, I would have done it for $5m,
honest injun! Nor would it cost that to test it nor to deploy it on mass.
Documentation, etc.
You're assuming that
New to the list, so I'm sorry if I missed it, but what was the evidence
presented that RSA took a $10M payoff to make Dual EC DRBG the default in
Crypto-C?
Thanks,
-Jared
On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
ianG i...@iang.org writes:
One mystery
On 2013-09-22 23:01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
You're assuming that someone got passed a suitcase full of cash and that was
it. Far more likely that RSA got a $10M contract for some government work and
at some point that included a request to make the ECDRBG the default for
insert
Just an example of how to spend $250M.
Jared Hunter feralch...@gmail.com wrote:
New to the list, so I'm sorry if I missed it, but what was the evidence
presented that RSA took a $10M payoff to make Dual EC DRBG the default
in Crypto-C?
Thanks,
-Jared
On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter
James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote:
On 2013-09-22 23:01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
You're assuming that someone got passed a suitcase full of cash and
that was
it. Far more likely that RSA got a $10M contract for some government
work and
at some point that included a request to make the
On 18 September 2013 22:23, Lucky Green shamr...@cypherpunks.to wrote:
According to published reports that I saw, NSA/DoD pays $250M (per
year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of
only one such effort. That effort involved DoD/NSA paying $10M to a
leading
On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote:
On 18 September 2013 22:23, Lucky Green shamr...@cypherpunks.to wrote:
According to published reports that I saw, NSA/DoD pays $250M (per
year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of
only one such
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On 2013-09-14 08:53, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
I get that 1024 bits is about on the edge, about equivalent to 80
bits or a little less, and may be crackable either now or sometime
soon.
Moti Young and others wrote a book back in the 90's (or
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