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Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced

Posted by timothy on from the 100-billion-dollars-for-the-next-contest dept.

thegrommit writes "It seems one implementation of elliptic curve cryptography has been broken. It took four years to break a 109 bit key, but the contest sponsors (who provide encryption products for Cisco, Nortel and Palm among others) believe it's still impossible to break their 163 bit keys. The real question is, for how long?" Update: 11/07 01:59 GMT by T : Dan Kaminsky wrote to point out that the key here was really brute forced, and not broken -- that is, no fundamental flaw was discovered in the algorithm.

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  1. password SWORDFISH ! by Flamesplash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm just waiting for the dude in SWORDFISH to crack 4096 bit encryption.

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