Re: [cryptography] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-23 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The flip side is the parameter generation for the EC DL cryptosystems is so complex that it will probably be safer for most purposes to use a standardized parameter set, than to generate your own, if your library even supports it. Or use regular DH

Re: [cryptography] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-23 Thread Adam Back
You know PFS while a good idea, and IMNSO all non-PFS ciphersuites should be deprecated etc, PFS just ensures the communicating parties delete the key negotiation emphemeral private keys after use. Which does nothing intrinsic to prevent massive computation powered 1024 discrete log on stored PFS