Debunking the PGP backdoor myth for good. [was RE: Hypothesis: PGP backdoor (was: A security bug in PGP products?)]

[Travis H.]

On 8/28/06, Ondrej Mikle <ondrej.mikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Take as an example group of Z_p* with p prime (in another words: DLP).
> The triplet (Z, p, generator g) is a compression of a string of p-1
> numbers, each number about log2(p) bits.

Pardon my mathematical ignorance, but isn't Z just a notation to indicate
a ring, as opposed to a parameter that you'd have to store?
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