On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:29:49AM -0500, Matt Crawford wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > >But the proof should give us more understanding of how the > >primes work, and therefore the proof might be translated into something > >that might produce this prime spectrometer. If it does, it will bring > >the > >whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight. So there are very big > >implications." > > This would be a good thing. Because to rebuild the infrastructure > based on symmetric crypto would bring the trusted third party > (currently the CA) out of the shadows and into the light. >
RSA is useful for more than X.509... and of course the reporter is prone to flights of fancy... -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON \ / CAMPAIGN Victor Duchovni X AGAINST IT Security, / \ HTML MAIL Morgan Stanley --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
