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Re: SERPENT in OpenPGP?

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Fri, 27 August 2010 20:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: SERPENT in OpenPGP?
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> At least to my (limited) understanding,... it seemed logical that it would
> be stronger.
> Imagine a quick factorising algorithm would be found,... RSA would be
> broken, but ElGamal not automatically,... (at least I've never heard about,
> that the factorisation problem can be transformed into the discrete
> logarithm problem).

It can. If there is a fast factoring algorithm, then there is also a fast discrete log algorithm.

	Jon


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