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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:44:00 -0400
Bill Frantz writes:
> RSA is vulnerable to advances in factoring, DSA is not.
El Gamal's method (on which DSA depends) uses the only other trick we
have, though, which is the difficulty of taking roots in a finite
field. There appear to be deep links between the two tricks (factoring
and discrete log).
Perry
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