Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

[Lucky Green]

Philip,
If we can at all fit it into the schedule, IFCA will attempt to offer a
colloquium on this topic at FC. Based on the countless calls inquiring about
this issue that I received just in the last few days, the customers of
financial cryptography are quite concerned about the Bernstein paper, albeit
the paper raises a number of open issues that still would need to be
investigated before one should assert that the sky is falling.

See you all at FC,

--Lucky, IFCA President

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip H. Zakas" <pzakas at toucancapital.com>
To: "'bear'" <bear at sonic.net>
Cc: "'Eugene Leitl'" <Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>; "'Cryptography
List'" <cryptography at wasabisystems.com>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bear [mailto:bear at sonic.net]
> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:49 PM
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
> >
> > >> >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> >
> > >> >But at Crypto last August, Dan Bernstein announced a new design
> for a
> > >> >machine dedicated to NFS using asymptotically fast algorithms and
> > >> >optimising memory, CPU power and amount of parallelism to minimize
> > >>
> > > Bear Responds:
> > >> I really want to read this paper; if we don't get to see the
> > >> actual mathematics, claims like this look incredibly like
> > >> someone is spreading FUD. Is it available anywhere?
> > >>
> > >
> > >The paper is located here: http://cr.yp.to/papers.html
> > >I've not evaluated yet but I'm interested in hearing if he received
> his
> > >grant to try it out.
> >
> > Holy shit.  The math works.  Bernstein has found ways of
> > using additional hardware to eliminate redundancies and
> > inefficiencies which appear in any linear implementation of the
> > Number Field Sieve.  We just never noticed that they were
> > inefficiencies and redundancies because we kept thinking in
> > terms of linear implementations.  This is probably the biggest
> > news in crypto in the last decade.  I'm astonished that it
> > hasn't been louder.
>
> It does seem doable and for not very much money. Is anyone attending the
> Intl. Financial Cryptography Association meeting in Bermuda from March
> 11-15th?  Perhaps we could arrange an informal get-together for this
> list.
> Phillip
>
>
>
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