full-disclosure - Time Expiry Alogorithm??

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Message-ID: <A69B2F68-3A89-11D9-B39F-000D93C0F38C@teknovis.com>
From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: Time Expiry Alogorithm??

On 19 Nov 2004, at 10:50, Anders Langworthy wrote:
> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> Now the other possibility: That somebody discovers a better way to 
> factor primes (please don tinfoil hats before replying to tell me that 
> the NSA has already done this, in Area 51, with help from Elvis). 
> Mathematically, this is a very remote possibility, as factoring primes 
> is probably an NP problem, and P is probably not NP.  Neither of these 
> has been proven, however.
>
> Even allowing for the miniscule possibility that there is a shortcut 
> to factoring primes, that doesn't necessarily mean that factoring huge 
> primes will be an easy task.  Using larger keys will still provide a 
> measure of security.

<nitpick>

Factoring primes is a solved problem. You probably mean "factoring the 
product of two large primes".

</nitpick>
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