RSA/DSA questions

Mike Rosing eresrch at eskimo.com
Fri May 23 10:23:37 PDT 2003


On Fri, 23 May 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:

> (I'll admit it, I'm a crypto weenie.  I know enough to spell RSA and DSA
> correctly, and that's about it.)
>
> Does anyone have any pointers to informative papers (especially analyses and
> critiques) to RSA and DSA in particular, and in general, signature
> algorithms?  The only page I've found is in the RSA Labs FAQ, and (obviously)
> digs into DSA.  A co-worker is generating some SSH keys, and it's been some
> time since I actually looked into either algorithm.  PuTTY recommends you
> avoid DSA, which was a bit of a surprise to me, and prompted this thus-far
> fruitless search for comparisons/critiques.

You might find this interesting:
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkdigsigs.html

I'd think a web search on buzz words found there would come up with
something to read :-)

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike





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