full-disclosure - Re: Signature or checksum?

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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:10:22 -0500
From: "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Signature or checksum?

On Dec 2, 2007 7:00 AM,  coderman <coderman@...il.com> wrote:
> p.s.  for the tin foil hat crowd, those digital sigs are looking
> weaker every year compared to cryptographic hash functions and block
> ciphers:
>
> http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/slides-from-sc07-progress-in-quantum-computing-panel/
>
> not to mention GNFS improvements the last few years...

Don't forget Galois group and Fermat surface research :-P
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

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