Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
by rlpb on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:12AM
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A contrary way of looking at this is that we can expect standard crypto implementations to switch to randomizing chosen primes. If you had been rolling your own, would you keep up to date with the state-of-the-art and switch, too?
Most hand-rollers probably won't, IMHO, because they don't have enough resources to spare a person to keep up with the art, let alone keep their own implementations up to date with it.
> ...I was someone holding solutions to cherry-picked primes for well-understood algorithms in wide use, I'd be complaining loudly every time someone wrote a bespoke library too.
Sure. This is pretty standard adversarial stuff, though. It's up to researchers to figure things out and publish. I don't see any evidence that this isn't happening. This article is a perfect example!
Most hand-rollers probably won't, IMHO, because they don't have enough resources to spare a person to keep up with the art, let alone keep their own implementations up to date with it.
> ...I was someone holding solutions to cherry-picked primes for well-understood algorithms in wide use, I'd be complaining loudly every time someone wrote a bespoke library too.
Sure. This is pretty standard adversarial stuff, though. It's up to researchers to figure things out and publish. I don't see any evidence that this isn't happening. This article is a perfect example!