17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed Mar 27, 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Adam Shostack writes:
I wasn't aware there were multiple things masquerading under the name Secure RPC. In any event, does the crypto in DCE stand up to the LaMacchia/Odlyzko attacks?
They are attacks against Diffie-Hellman. I don't know if DCE uses D-H in a similar manner. The main problem was too small a (fixed) modulus.
It doesn't. DCE uses Kerberos v5. Howard -- Howard R. Melman ___ ___ ___ Voice: 617-621-8989 Open Software Foundation / / /__ /__ Fax: 617-621-2782 11 Cambridge Center /__/ ___/ / mailto:melman@osf.org Cambridge, MA 02142 http://www.osf.org/~melman/