At 10:59 AM +0000 3/21/01, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
According to the current Comp.Risks Digest, a Bellcore attack seems possible
due to the OpenPGP secret key format.
Yes, Lutz. There has been a fair amount of discussion here in
Minneapolis regarding the discovery by the Czech researchers. I'll
leave the detailed analysis to others to publish, but at this point
it appears this attack does not appear to pose a significant threat
to the integrity of information encrypted with PGP.
--
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
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