Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

[Dave Howe]

Eric Cordian wrote:
> Nonetheless, it's an indication that they don't think RSA has much of
> a future.
Not really - they could simply be covering all bases (supporting RSA, DH
and EC, knowing if DH is broken then almost certainly so is RSA (and vice
versa) leaving only EC to fill the gap)
The smaller keysizes can't hurt either.