hello,
The security of elliptic curve cryptosystems depend on
the difficulty in solving the elliptic curve discrete
log problem(ECDLP). If any body gets to prove that
P=NP, then all the public key cryptosystemts which
rely on 'hard' problems will be useless for crypto.
Sarath.
--- Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes
> that don't rely on prime
> numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected?
>
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> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Matt Crawford wrote:
>
> > On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> >
> > This would be a good thing. Because to rebuild
> the infrastructure
> > based on symmetric crypto would bring the trusted
> third party
> > (currently the CA) out of the shadows and into the
> light.
>
>
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