Re: Break in at RSA

Am 25.03.2011 02:03, schrieb Greg Rose:
In article<imggt0$tln$01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mok-Kong Shen<mok-kong.shen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 24.03.2011 15:52, schrieb Phoenix:

Hi M.K.Shen

Very strange indeed.
Perhaps this is a response to my three questions?

See:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72100.html

(For clarity to other readers: Now all three URL's work. But at the time
of my first post both URL's given by amzoti didn't.)

If an algorithm is o.k.
[snip]

I think that, as usual, M-K hasn't read anything
he is talking about. The break-in at RSA seems to
have been used to steal secret information (some
people speculate the key database) used for the
tokens that display a new 6-digit code every
minute. This has nothing at all to do with the RSA
public-key algorithm. In fact, cryptographically,
it's a non-story.

Did I in my post EVER doubted the (theoretical) satisfaction
of RSA or even the science of cryptography in general ???!!!

The trouble I have is that I couldn't really make much sense
(due certainly in part to my non-perfect English knowledge)
of the article. I want thus to learn from an expert of our
group what actaully happened in more elementary English words.

Before such an explanation the only thing I could think of
would be something of the gendre of backdoors (of which I
recently had some threads in this group), whether intentionally
installed or occurred by programmer ignorance. (BTW, wouldn't
the database issue you mentioned relevant in this regard??)

M. K. Shen


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