Re: [cryptography] Explaining crypto to engineers (was: Duplicate primes in lots of RSA moduli)

2012-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Kevin W. Wall kevin.w.w...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] Thanks for the link. It took me a LONG time to convince the ESAPI team of this because I was the newb to them and I came in and

Re: [cryptography] Explaining crypto to engineers (was: Duplicate primes in lots of RSA moduli)

2012-02-25 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Hi, here is an attempt to summarize view of crypto from engineers' point of view. It's based on discussing the points raised in the Duplicate primes... thread with couple of HW/SW engineers and past experience with colleagues. Sorry for the length, this post grew quite a bit. Hopefully I caught