Re: DSA cracked?? or wired wrong??

Go see Lucent Techologies Research homepage and find out the truth.
Yongge






Philip Hallam-Baker <pbaker@verisign.com> on 02/06/2001 03:23:02 PM

To:   "XML-Signature (E-mail)" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
cc:    (bcc: Yongge Wang/Certicom)

Subject:  DSA cracked?? or wired wrong??




I didn't hear this? Anyone know a source for this possibly confused
journalist?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41625-2,00.html

Also compromised is the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) -- developed by
the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology -- which is supposed
to protect the transfer of information over the Internet. And there's a
nifty new JavaScript security hole that lets anyone who sends an email see
exactly what the recipient said when that e-mail is forwarded onto another
person.


Phillip Hallam-Baker
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.
pbaker@verisign.com
781 245 6996 x227