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Re: [Full-disclosure] A new way to hide from Google and Yahoo



a typical example of good encryption alg on a bad place . but the users
sees the "2048 bit RSA" and they get on the hook .

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Javor Ninov aka DrFrancky
securitydot.net


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:07:44 BST, n3td3v said:
>> Read more folks, now we can talk about Google and Yahoo without using Tor
>> www.digg.com/software/World_s_Most_Secure_Instant_Messenger_is_here_!!
> 
> Tell me - were any of the Digg votes for that from anybody who had actually
> done a code review?  Or they just saw "2048 bit RSA" and got woodies?
> 
> (Personally, I wouldn't want to be using 2048 bit RSA for the actual
> stream encryption - that's something that IDEA or similar is much better for.
> RSA is good for exchanging the IVs for the session keys, and that's about
> it.  And anybody want to place bets that it has tons of interesting attacks
> on key management?)
> 
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