[45363] in Cypherpunks
Re: CryptoLib 1.0 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W. Kinney)
Thu Dec 14 01:05:21 1995
From: "W. Kinney" <kinney@bogart.Colorado.EDU>
To: mab@research.att.com (Matt Blaze)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:48:59 -0700 (MST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512140032.TAA27224@nsa.tempo.att.com> from "Matt Blaze" at Dec 13, 95 07:32:49 pm
> CryptoLib includes the following:
[...]
> quantization (Defense against Kocher's timing attack)
> quantized RSA, DSA and El Gamal private key operations.
Maybe this is an incorrect conclusion, but here seems to be a _second_ group
who knew about Kocher's timing attack before Kocher did. What on earth
would ECash or ATT have to gain by keeping such knowledge a secret?
-- Will
