Secure Messaging in Ubuntu

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> What about the ellipticals?  ISTR seeing someone claim 2 or 3 years
> ago that it was several orders of magnitude harder, or has that been
> rendered moot by now?  I really don't know.

Bruce Schneier wrote in [1]:

| Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve
| systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they
| can.

That doesn't look like it would be harder for the NSA ...


Nils

[1] <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance>