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Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?



On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:18:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> My understanding was that there aren't other hash functions that've had
> remotely similar levels of cryptographic analysis to md5 and sha. IIRC,
> the elliptic curve cryptography stuff was supposed to be similarly neat,
> until people started analysing it seriously, at which point it broke.

To the best of my knowledge, elliptic curve cryptography isn't any more
broken than RSA or ElGamal is.

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