For those of you who read this and were confused by its lack of context, the background is as follows: Koblitz and Menezes have, for the last two decades or so,

For those of you who read this and were confused by its lack of context, the background is as follows: Koblitz and Menezes have, for the last two decades or so, been publishing a series of papers that invite the cryptographic community to re-examine the prevailing paradigm of provable security. These papers are aggregated here: http://anotherlook.ca/ http://anotherlook.ca/.