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Weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography Brute-Forced
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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Kiluto ng'ato e bur moro amora ok nyal ywak kata goyo koko nikech gikowe gi kwe.
Ji okuyo ka gikulo wigi piny, to jo mochungo osiro lew tong' piny.
To ka dhok pod ok odonjo e kul ok ginyal ike; gipero lowo, kata giumo bur gi pien kata thigo. Ka dhok osedonjo eka giike e kar saa apar ga ariyo ka chieng' podho.
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That's just silly.
4 years?? My bird broke all 104 keys on my keyboard in just one day when I mistakenly left the cage door open.
Relatively insecure? Forgive my ignorance, but didn't it take over 10,000 computers blasting away to defeat this thing?
;)
Personally, I feel that if the CIA or NSA wishes to spend that kind of processing power just to break in my research paper notes, let them. Hell, I'll even donate my computers to the project to help them.
/dev/random
You wouldn't by any chance work for intel, do you? I mean 2+2 = 3.99999998673 is close enough ;)
Kjella
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