Fwd: Tor security advisory: DH handshake flaw

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Tue Aug 30 15:17:07 EDT 2005


Simon Josefsson wrote:
> No, the certificate is verifiable in deterministic polynomial time.
> The test is probabilistic, though, but as long as it works, I don't
> see why that matters.  However, I suspect the ANSI X9.80 or ISO 18032
> paths are more promising.  I was just tossing out URLs.

Surely Miller-Rabin is polynomial time anyway?

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