Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes that don't rely on prime numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected? ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Matt Crawford wrote:
On Sep 6, 2004, at 21:52, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
This would be a good thing. Because to rebuild the infrastructure based on symmetric crypto would bring the trusted third party (currently the CA) out of the shadows and into the light.