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RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-small-subgroup-00.txt

1999-03-29 20:12:39
As I mentioned at the meeting in Minneapolis, this draft is intended to be
an informational draft briefly describing the "small-subgroup" attacks on
Diffie-Hellman and methods to protect oneself from these attacks.  I would
encourage people to read this draft.  Comments and criticism are
appreciated.

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the
IETF.

      Title           : Methods for Avoiding the 'Small-Subgroup' 
                          Attacks on the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
Method 
                          for S/MIME
      Author(s)       : R. Zuccherato
      Filename        : draft-ietf-smime-small-subgroup-00.txt
      Pages           : 7
      Date            : 26-Mar-99
      
In some circumstances the use of the Diffie-Hellman key agreement scheme
in a prime order subgroup of a large prime p is vulnerable to certain
attacks known as 'small-subgroup' attacks.  Methods exist, however, to
prevent these attacks.  This document will describe the situations
relevent to the S/MIME standard in which protection is required and the
methods that can be used to to prevent these attacks.

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