On 08/16/2013 11:36 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Kent,
Critique and review of ciphers is not that simple. Compare RSA to RC4,
both developed in part or in total by Ron Rivest. On paper, RSA is a
weak algorithm while RC4 is a strong one. In practice, however, RC4
was found to be weak through experimentation while RSA has withstood
attack.
You need to know how to attack ciphers if you want to critique them.
And even that isn't always enough to spot weaknesses.
I't has been a while, but if I recall, Derek was on a team that cracked
an RSA key. I don't remember the details,but I still remember Derek's talk.
--
Jerry Feldman <[email protected]>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
