There was actually a discussion between Leo de Velez and Ron Rivest of
MIT. Leo is a *math genius*, but he has not broken RSA. He just came
up with a factoring method which can help in attacking *small* RSA
numbers. But given the fact that RSA encryption uses large numbers as a
standard practice then..... You know what I mean. It is just so sad
that Leo actually told the reporter to hold off the press release until
confirmed, but I guess someone just got keyboard-happy so it made the
news without prior notice given to Leo. It is a good thing that Leo
verified this himself and we (Filipinos) don't look so stupid claiming
something that is not true. =)
Anyways, here's a link that I got from Bugtraq providing the email
exchange between Leo and Ron.
http://www.seedmuse.com/rsa_edit.htm
Deds Castillo
Infiniteinfo Philippines
http://www.infiniteinfo.com
"kelsey@mse" wrote:
>
> did a search on the name leo de velez...
> has a home page at
>
> http://www.skyinet.net/~math/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:21 PM
> Subject: [plug] Pinoy Math Enthusiast finds fast way to perform RSA
> decryption
>
> >
> >http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO/2001-02/IT020201.asp
> >
> >Interesting. This algorithm should find its way into PGP, GPG, and other
> >software that uses RSA for its public key work. Does anyone know who this
> >guy is?
> >
> >--
> >Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63 (2) 4342217
> >ICSM-F Development Team, UP Diliman +63 (917) 4458925
> >OpenPGP Key ID: 0x0E8CE481
> >
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