Re: from Interesting People: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally

2000-04-17 Thread Sandy Harris
"Perry E. Metzger" wrote: > > Anyone know anything about this? It was a Certicom elliptic curve challenge. For details: http://www.certicom.com/ > -- > Perry Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..." > --- Start of forwar

Re: from Interesting People: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally

2000-04-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > > Anyone know anything about this? > > -- See http://www.inria.fr/Presse/pre67-eng.html or http://www.inria.fr/Presse/pre67-fra.html -- it was an attack on an instance of elliptic curve cryptography. --Steve Bellov