NSA/Lotus public key (was Re: [IRS] Elvis in Escrow)
Adam Shostack
adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Thu Apr 18 20:13:19 PDT 1996
Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
| > I wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth? You know, the
| > one they use to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends
| > them.
|
| Does anyone know how many bits it is? If it is 512 or less it may
| be a good candidate for a public key factoring.
Legally, I don't know that they can export software that
handles keys longer than 512 bits. Wait! I forgot! They are the brute
squad.
More seriously, if they did export an API (even a private one)
that can handle keys longer than 512 bits, perhaps we could find that
out and publish information on using the NSA-strength crypto from
Notes applications.
Adam
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