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From: Robert Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:10:32 +0100
To: FoRK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [FoRK] ECC and the web
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>Came across this today and thought it would be of interest to some of you..
>
>*Integrating elliptic curve cryptography into the web's security
infrastructure *
>Vipul Gupta, Douglas Stebila, Sheueling Chang Shantz
>[...]

Sheueling contacted me a couple of times a couple of years ago about
the same stuff...
described her research at Sun... enquired about working together but
decided it wasn't a go-er since I was in Paris and her in the Bay
area...


>RSA is the most popular public-key cryptosystem on the Web today but
long-term trends >such as [...] increasing security needs will make
continued reliance on RSA more
>challenging over time.  [...]

I've long doubted the security of RSA and have more concrete reasons
for doubting these days... won't say more than that... ;)

R
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