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I haven't had much crypto-in-practice background (outside of thought experiments), but I have some math background so I'm quite curious. Shouldn't people also b
by cinquemb 11y ago
I haven't had much crypto-in-practice background (outside of thought experiments), but I have some math background so I'm quite curious. Shouldn't people also be worried about non brute force attacks based on finding mathematical solutions? I mean, "The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography"[0]?
[0] http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800972p.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800972p.pdf
- tptacek 11y agoThe attacks we're talking about are non-brute-force mathematical attacks (specifically, in this case, the index calculus). A pure brute-force attack on a 2^1024 search space would be comically implausible.