I dont believe it was intended to be rude, just a tongue in cheek way of saying that the attack is impractical or inapplicable to openSSL.
You have to have a bit of history perhaps to appreciate Peter's comments - he's actually the author of many very funny and insightful comments and articles on the state of applied cryptography :) Adam 2010/3/31 Arturo Quirantes <[email protected]>: > If you guys don´t feel like giving a good answer, just don´t. No > need to play rude. BTW, thanks to James for his post links. > >> Peter Gutmann wrote: >>> Arturo Quirantes <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> I wonder if the new release includes a patch to the recently attack by >>>> Pellegrini et al: >>>> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~valeria/research/publications/DATE10RSA.pdf >>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/severe_openssl_vulnerability/ >>>> and, if not, when will it be available. >>> >>> This is currently being held up by a more urgent patch to defend OpenSSL >>> against a recently-discovered weakness involving pink unicorns. The >>> Pellegrini attack defence is expected to be rolled out after this patch is >>> released, at the same time as a patch for "the leprechaun thing" (details >>> currently unpublished due to acute security concerns). >>> >>> Peter. > >> Alas, you leaked this one day early...or are you on the other side of the >> international date line? Might already be 4/1 in Auckland. > >> -kevin > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > = = Arturo Quirantes (PGP: ID 0xE4C36BBD) = = > = = Taller de Criptografía www.cripto.es = = > ----------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
