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- From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: What's the overall ratio?
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:53:08 GMT
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- This is probably a naive question, but..
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- When designing cryptosystems I'd imagine it's desireable to use
- algorithms that don't parallelize well. Is it feasible to somehow add
- a step to a process like exponentiation that won't decompose well? Lenstra's
- experiment with using loads of machines to factor primes shows us that
- massively parallel attacks are just a matter of networking. ;) Is there
- anything like factorization that also has the property of not parallelizing
- well or at all?
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- mjr.
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