Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:
> Unruh <unruh-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (07-04-14 17:02:29):
>
>>> Feel free to make fun of it, but you may ask yourself the question
>>> why people spend so much time, money and power for factoring
>>> numbers, which nobody uses? ;)
>> Because people DO use it-- factoring has been im****tant in may ways
>> for thousands of years. And if general techniques for factoring are
>> found, one of the most popular cryptosystems in the world fails.
>> So your comparison is, shall we say, flawed.
>
> You don't find new factoring algorithms. You use existing ones to
> factor numbers, which nobody uses. You don't do this to know how long
> it takes, because you can roughly estimate it beforehand.
>
> So the scientific value of doing this is pretty near to zero, besides
> some knowledge about how well a cluster or grid performs, which you can
> as well estimate, too.
>
> I do agree that attacking CryptoSMS is pretty pointless, but not
> completely.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ertugrul Söylemez.
>
>
No, completely useless. In places it is massive overkill, so
inefficient that it precludes widespread use hence, "why bother?" In
other places it is flawed in very well known ways that there is nothing
to learn.
If CryptoSMS is listening the book "Secrets and Lies" has some very good
parts dealing with exactly the problem areas. Those parts made the
author so depressed he stuck it in a draw for a year.
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