Schneier (and RSA) on Bernstein factoring machine

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 3:54 PM -0400 on 4/16/02, Trei, Peter wrote:


> Well, Lucky's not a business, and he's certainly not a military
> institution (despite his fondness for ordinance). What does that
> leave? Most of us who know him got a little chuckle out of this.
>
> For RSA's 'official' position on this issue, take a look at:
>
> http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/technotes/bernstein.html
>
> If there's a call for it, I'll post the whole text so you can read
> it without visiting our site (it's not too long).

One should also note, that, last time I looked at least, that Mr. Briceno
ended up at RSA as part of the XCert buyout.

Cheers,
RAH
Whose old 1028 bit RSA key will probably go away soon as part of an
apparent impedance mismatch between MacPGP and MacGPG anyway...

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