BlueHat v13 crypto talks - request for leaks ;)

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 03:12:10 PST 2013


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
> I can answer for Cryptopocalype. :)  I had a follow-up blog post after Black
> Hat, but the crux is looking for the next crypto black swan. Joux's work in
> optimizing the function field sieve for fields of a small  characteristic
> has been a significance improvement kind of out of left field. If he or
> anyone else made improvements to the FFS for fields of a large
> characteristic or the GNFS - we would be in a bad way. The security margin
> on the ECDLP is greater than DL or factoring and while we've got the
> algorithms, the implementations are sometimes missing and the ability to
> pivot, in software update mechanisms, in CAs, everywhere - is completely
> missing. ECC has other attributes that make it attractive too, so let's get
> the plumbing ready, so we can support a quick pivot away from RSA and over
> to ECC if we have to...


thanks!

for posterity, the post is at:
http://ritter.vg/blog-cryptopocalypse_followup.html



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