The symmetric ciphers

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

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Am 10.09.2013 13:45, schrieb Werner Koch:
> You would also need a second public keypair to protect the second 
> symmetric key.  If you don't, the attacker would target the public
> key scheme directly - ah well that is in any case the lower hanging
> fruit.

I wouldn't assme that: RSA is something taught in typical maths and
computer science curriculums at universities. Factorization is a
well-known problem.
Symmetric ciphers, on the other hand are for specialists.
So I would assume that RSA got much more attention and eyes looking at
it than any symmetric cipher.

Philipp

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