On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 21:09, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]>wrote:
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Tom Perrine > > > > I just saw this blog post by the Grumpy Troll: http://bridge.grumpy- > > troll.org/2011/01/openssh.html > > > > I've been waiting for ECC to go "mainstream", and I guess that it's > finally > > (mostly?) here. > > > > How about you? Is ECC revolutionary, just for tinfoil hats, or no value > at > > all? I've put together a quick Survey Monkey survey to gauge interest in > ECC > > in SSH: > > Interesting. > > In rsa/dsa cryptography, it's actually trivially easy to break as long as > you can guess the keys right. ;-) Of course there are so many possible > keys, it's nearly impossible to guess the keys in a lifetime. But if > somebody invents something like quantum computing able to perform massively > parallel computation, then the ability to guess keys might become a > reality... > You're talking about Shor's algorithm then. ECC and RSA and DSA would vulnerable if we have quantum computer. > Does ECC rely on the same principle? Anybody could decrypt if only they > guessed the keys correctly? > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral.
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