NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org)

[Eric Cordian]

David Howe writes:

>   I doubt the NSA need, trust or want anyone else's actual software for EC

Nonetheless, it's an indication that they don't think RSA has much of a
future.  So now they have a public key cryptosystem with smaller key
lengths, and a more obtuse one-way function that can't be understood by
Joe Schmo.

We shall see what this portends. 

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