On 2013-09-06 7:01 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
The claims are that some code and magic constants have been weakened, but also that NSA still has problems with some methods. We need to know. Obviously, as a short-term workaround there's fallback to expensive/inconvenient methods like one-time pads, but long-term we obviously need new cyphers. Not tainted by any TLA poison.
Time to generate and select new elliptic curves by an open process, wherein any large random quantities are chosen by a non secret process, such as searching for the appropriate value nearest a round number.
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