<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2013 11:37, Gene Heskett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com" target="_blank">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Monday 09 September 2013 05:36:36 Nils Kassube did opine:<br>
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> Gene Heskett wrote:<br>
> > What about the ellipticals?  ISTR seeing someone claim 2 or 3 years<br>
> > ago that it was several orders of magnitude harder, or has that been<br>
> > rendered moot by now?  I really don't know.<br>
><br>
> Bruce Schneier wrote in [1]:<br>
> | Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve<br>
> | systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they<br>
> | can.<br>
><br>
> That doesn't look like it would be harder for the NSA ...<br>
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> Nils<br>
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> [1]<br>
> <<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Gave me page not found.<br></div></div><br></div></div>