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1994-02-07 - Re: Some stuff about Diffie-Hellman (and more :-)

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-02-07 18:11:23 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 10:11:23 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 10:11:23 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Some stuff about Diffie-Hellman (and more :-)
In-Reply-To: <9402071704.AA23562@ah.com>
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Eric Hughes says:
> >Indeed, a paper has been published on how to break Sun Secure RPC
> >based on the idiotic decision by someone at Sun to standardise the
> >modulus used. 
> 
> It wasn't standardization that was the problem.  The Sun modulus was
> just too small.  My take on the idiocy was that the designers were
> assuming that because they didn't know how to break such a large
> modulus, that no one else did either.

Standardization was also a problem. It meant that the effort to break
one exchange could be used to break all of them at once. This seems
like a very bad thing.

Perry

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