[Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-09-01 4:02 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> On 08/30/2013 08:10 PM, Aaron Zauner wrote:
>
>> I read that WP report too. IMHO this can only be related to RSA 
>> (factorization, side-channel attacks).
>
> I have been hearing rumors lately that factoring may not in fact be as 
> hard
> as we have heretofore supposed.  Algorithmic advances keep eating into 
> RSA
> keys, as fast as hardware advances do.

So far, not much affect on elliptic keys.

Except that all elliptic keys of the extremely useful gap-diffie-hellman 
group are potentially subject to techniques analogous to those that are 
attacking RSA.