Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
Sunder
sunder at sunder.net
Tue Sep 7 07:41:53 PDT 2004
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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