Secure Messaging in Ubuntu

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 22:07:25 UTC 2013


On 9 September 2013 22:58, Robert Holtzm <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

Odd. Works for me - Chrome on Lubuntu 13.04, on a 10Y old P4 AJP
laptop. Running like a champ. :¬)


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