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Re: DSA security issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Mon Nov 29 12:16:51 1999
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:07:16 +0100 (CET)
Message-Id: <199911290607.HAA04010@sofuku.monster.org>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Rodney Thayer asks:
> 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?
>
> I _know_ it's a 'fuzzy' discomfort, I'm just looking for backup data.
At http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/linux-ipsec/html/1999/06/msg00067.html
John Gilmore discusses some of his reasons for discomfort with DSS.
In responses in the thread, cryptographers such as Rich Schroeppel and
David Wagner suggested that John's concerns were not too serious, e.g.
http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/linux-ipsec/html/1999/06/msg00136.html.
