On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:51:27 -0400 Ryan Kirk wrote: > You're definitely on track, although I was referring to D.J. > Bernstein's recent slides: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2012.06.04/slides.pdf >
Thanks, I'll take a gander. > In these, he does bring up the same problems again that his DNSCURVE > purported to solve, about weak algorithms, signing (or lack of), > forgeries, and UDP amplification. It might just be who I follow, but > I've seen a lot of discussion around this lately on twitter by Jacob > Appelbaum and other privacy/crypto types. Perhaps 'mired in > controversy' was an overstatement, but it definitely appears that spec > has problems. Right probably because RSA's taken a bit of a knock since granting some weight to the argument and ECDSA has now been ratified.