1994-06-24 - Re: Unofficial Release

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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: perry@imsi.com
Message Hash: ab6ba14019628c5a6207a7782be3222a72bcda06fdcd2a99ab11d0594abd8d3d
Message ID: <199406240102.SAA16821@servo.qualcomm.com>
Reply To: <9406231157.AA04404@snark.imsi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-06-24 01:03:46 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 18:03:46 PDT

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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 18:03:46 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: Unofficial Release
In-Reply-To: <9406231157.AA04404@snark.imsi.com>
Message-ID: <199406240102.SAA16821@servo.qualcomm.com>
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Rumor has it that certain government applications do Diffie Hellman
with 2K-bit moduli. Given the apparent connections between factoring
and discrete logarithm (the complexity formulas seem to look very much
alike), it appears that at least one user feels that keys longer than
1K bits provide a desirable safety margin.

Phil

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