hello,
The security of elliptic curve cryptosystems depend on
the difficulty in solving the elliptic curve discrete
log problem(ECDLP). If any body gets to prove that
P=NP, then all the public key cryptosystemts which
rely on 'hard' problems will be useless for crypto.
Sarath.
--- Sunder
Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes that don't rely on prime numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected?
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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.
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