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Re: DSA security issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Markus Kuhn)
Mon Nov 29 12:16:49 1999
To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:27:34 PST."
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 09:24:27 +0000
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Rodney Thayer wrote on 1999-11-27 19:27 UTC:
> Gilmore etc. have made comments, includingt the quoted passage below
> from the Linux IPsec list, indiciating that DSA is "not as trustworthy
> as RSA".
>
> Can anyone here offer some more details?
One of the papers that reverse engineered many of the design ideas
behind the NIST DSS is
R. Anderson, S. Vaudenay: Minding your p's and q's, Asiacrypt 96,
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/psandqs.ps.gz
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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