Re: [Fwd: Supposedly RSA has been cracked]

[David Kennedy CISSP <david.kennedy () ACM ORG>]

At 09:09 PM 2/2/01 -0500, Jason Brvenik wrote:
>Oops,
>
>http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20178050-1,00.htm
>I'm very skeptical about the claim put forward by this article but I
>wanted to see if anyone on the list might have more information or
>contacts that can confirm or deny.
>

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On Perry Metzger's crypto list, a lengthy private e-mail was X-posted. Here is an excerpt:

>>>>
> Ron Rivest wrote:
>
>
> > Dear Leo --
> >
> > Thanks for the more detailed explanation of your approach to attacking
> > RSA given in your emails (copied below).  For the reasons I will
> > explain, and as you are perhaps aware, I think your approach is
> > unlikely to work in practice against large RSA numbers.  It would be
> > very premature or misleading to characterize RSA as "broken" based on
> > your work to date.
> >
<<<<



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