Timeline for Explaining weakness of Dual EC DRBG to wider audience?
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| Dec 26, 2013 at 3:47 | comment | added | user10496 | "... you could explain that at least one major crypto library (RSA's BSAFE) does use it, for reasons that are unclear..." - there's actually $10,000,000 reasons. See Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer. | |
| Sep 19, 2013 at 22:55 | comment | added | D.W. | @Nemo, well... in some sense, yeah, you're out of the mainstream. The reason for this notation is that mathematicians have been studying elliptic curves for far longer than cryptographers have been using them in crypto, and mathematicians have used the additive notation ($eQ$ rather than $Q^e$), for reasons that make sense in the mathematical context. That said, many folks studying crypto have the same reaction you do, because they were initially trained on the integer discrete log problem rather than elliptic curve discrete log problem, and their intuition follows what they learned first. | |
| Sep 19, 2013 at 22:42 | comment | added | Nemo | The fact that solving $P = eQ$ requires solving "the discrete log problem" is why I prefer the multiplicative notation $P = Q^e$. Am I out of the mainstream on this? | |
| Sep 19, 2013 at 3:56 | vote | accept | DeepSpace101 | ||
| Sep 19, 2013 at 0:33 | comment | added | D.W. | @Sid, OK, I edited my answer to explain the mathematics as well. I apologize that my answer got so long. You can decide whether this will be of interest to them or whether it's just too darn much. If you're giving a presentation, pictures might help. :-) | |
| Sep 19, 2013 at 0:32 | history | edited | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2013 at 0:24 | history | edited | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2013 at 23:23 | comment | added | DeepSpace101 | I've got the non-technical bases covered well, similar in vein to yours above. I just know they'd be delighted if I could tease the intuition behind the math (than the core math itself). Getting the middle balance has been tricky ... | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 23:17 | history | answered | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |