Secure Messaging in Ubuntu

[Robert Holtzm]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:34:04AM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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>

Strangly enough that url can't be found with my browser,
iceweasel/firefox. 

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Bob Holtzman
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