On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> Wei Dai writes:
> > Is CP completely broken, or is there some variant of it that
> > is still unbroken?
>
> It's completely broken.
So what on earth was that claim of mathematically showing it was as strong
as RSA about? If breaking it doesn't result in a break of RSA, it must
have been of the typical voodoo hand-waving flavor.
> That's not to denigrate Flannery's work: she started from the
> assumption that the algorithm she'd been handed to work on was
> O.K. and did some good work optimizing its implementation.
That doesn't make the algorithm any more useful.
-Bram
