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Re: [Cfrg] Security proofs v DH backdoors

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sun, 30 October 2016 10:57 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Michael Scott <mike.scott@miracl.com>, CFRG <cfrg@irtf.org>
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Michael Scott <mike.scott@miracl.com> writes:

>As an influential opinion leader I think you really need to expand on that
>last paragraph. In the first sentence you need to define "harsh environment".
>The second sentence ("any fault of any kind") is manifestly untrue. And in
>the third sentence what industries exactly?

So I've been sitting here trying to figure out how to respond to this (and one
or two other messages).  I think there must be some sort of miscommunication
happening because I can't otherwise explain why you're asking what you are.
The options seem to be:

1. You're unaware of how vulnerable to faults ECC is.
2. You're unaware that computers experience faults.
3. We're talking at cross purposes/miscommunicating in some way.

Before I type up a long essay on #1 or #2 (which I'm not terribly keen on
doing) I want to make sure that you're really asking what you appear to be
asking, and one or both of us hasn't misinterpreted the others' position.

Peter.

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