Re: Russian cyberwar against Estonia?

2007-05-22 Thread Ivan Krstić
Bill Stewart wrote: - Some teenage hacker who got annoyed at some other teenage hacker because they got into an argument on WoW or Myspace and decided to DDOS him Some years back, I was on the receiving end of this type of scenario bringing down connectivity for a small

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Victor Duchovni wrote: The other issue is that sites will need multiple certs during any transition from RSA to ECC, because the entire Internet won't upgrade overnight. I am not expecting public CAs to cooperate by charging the same price for two certs (RSA and ECC) for the same subject

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
FWIW, according to Arjen Lenstra, there should be a better paper than the physorg.com article on the eprint.iacr.org site next week, hopefully. At 4:32 PM -0400 5/21/07, Victor Duchovni wrote: When do the Certicom patents expire? Which ones? They have many. Using EC depends on how brave you

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:07:24PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: The other issue is that sites will need multiple certs during any transition from RSA to ECC, because the entire Internet won't upgrade overnight. I am not expecting public CAs to cooperate by charging the same price for two certs

RE: Russian cyberwar against Estonia?

2007-05-22 Thread Trei, Peter
Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:04 PM 5/18/2007, Trei, Peter wrote: If the Russians aren't behind this, who else should be suspected? It isn't like Estonia has a wide selection of enemies. :-) There are three likely suspects - the actual Russian government (or some faction thereof) - Russian