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EKR (ekr@terisa.com)
27 Jul 1998 22:53:45 -0700
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> "William H. Geiger III" writes:
> > >You may have a look at the classics: e.g., Applied Cryptography. DSA has
> > >been long suspected of harbouring backdoors, having been designed by NSA,
> >
> > Yeh and the same group has been suspecting that there are back doors in
> > DES for the same reasons and no one has yet to find one after all these
> > years.
>
> Well, there is a *known* problem with the DSA -- if I am not mistaken,
> it has the "subliminal channel" problem. (Am I correct on this?)
The subliminal channels only apply with a cooked group. Since
you can generate your own DSA group, this shouldn't be a problem.
-Ekr
-- [Eric Rescorla Terisa Systems, Inc.] "Put it in the top slot."
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