Secure Messaging in Ubuntu
Jim Byrnes
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Tue Sep 10 01:15:51 UTC 2013
On 09/09/2013 05:07 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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. :¬)
>
>
Just tried it with Firefox 23 on Ubuntu 12.04 and it worked.
Regards, JIm
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