The symmetric ciphers

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Oct 30 22:03:00 CET 2013


On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:06, pkk at spth.de said:

> I wouldn't assme that: RSA is something taught in typical maths and
> computer science curriculums at universities. Factorization is a
> well-known problem.

Using RSA in a safe way is a not easy - it took more than 20 years until
most cryptographers are convinced that there are safe way of using RSA.
Check out the notes section in the HAC on attacks on RSA.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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