[19014] in bugtraq
Re: Pinoy math enthusiast finds fast way to decode RSA encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Mon Feb 5 18:35:37 2001
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:31:31 -0800
Reply-To: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@TREACHERY.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Andre Delafontaine wrote:
> The following link was sent to me this morning. Has anybody heard about
> this, gotten any more info? Is this TRUE? :-)
>
> http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO/2001-02/IT020201.asp
Here's what's come across the Cryptography List (greatly snipped
for brevity). I believe this settles the matter. As another pointed out,
the whole thing was probably more a matter of handling RSA in a quicker
fashion than actually *cracking* it.
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Ron Rivest wrote:
> Dear Leo --
>
> Thanks for the more detailed explanation of your approach to attacking
> RSA given in your emails (copied below). For the reasons I will
> explain, and as you are perhaps aware, I think your approach is
> unlikely to work in practice against large RSA numbers. It would be
> very premature or misleading to characterize RSA as "broken" based on
> your work to date.
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If you've read this far, you're likely interested in the full text
of the exchange. A copy has been dropped at:
http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/rsa_note.txt
- -Jay
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