[Alfonso De Gregorio <[email protected]> (2012-01-14 11:38:52 UTC)] > Back in December 2010, we discussed the OpenBSD IPSec backdoor allegations. > Two days ago, Cryptome.org published the Gregory Perry's follow-up to > the this story. > > FBI OpenBSD Backdoors and RSA Cipher Vulnerability > http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0032.htm
Maybe it's just me, but I find myself unable to make sense of this part: [...] one mathematical vulnerability in the RSA encryption algorithm related to changing the base numbering system of the resulting RSA modulus after a block of plaintext had been encrypted If "changing the base numbering system" means to express the modulus in a different base, I utterly fail to see the security implications. Does it mean something else entirely? Also, the grammar seems to imply that it is the encryption of a block of plaintext that results in an RSA modulus. Which seems rather backward to me. Not being a crypto expert myself, just a mathematician with a modest amount of knowledge of matters cryptographical, I don't know if I am just being obtuse, or if the quoted sentence really is nonsense. - Harald _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
