17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Eric Hughes says:
Indeed, a paper has been published on how to break Sun Secure RPC based on the idiotic decision by someone at Sun to standardise the modulus used.
It wasn't standardization that was the problem. The Sun modulus was just too small. My take on the idiocy was that the designers were assuming that because they didn't know how to break such a large modulus, that no one else did either.
Standardization was also a problem. It meant that the effort to break one exchange could be used to break all of them at once. This seems like a very bad thing. Perry