[40337] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Debunking the PGP backdoor myth for good. [was RE: Hypothesis: PGP backdoor (was: A security bug in PGP products?)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Sun Sep 3 23:45:02 2006
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:02:12 -0500
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "Ondrej Mikle" <ondrej.mikle@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <98714e1d0608280729ve6fbd3aj8245c59c76e8ff5b@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/28/06, Ondrej Mikle <ondrej.mikle@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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