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Matthew S. Hamrick (matthew.hamrick@uptronics.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:08:53 -0800
Okay... This is just on the border of revelancy for CodherPlunks... Please
don't flame me too bad.
The BBC Web site published a story today about a pk algorithm that's
apparently based on matrices and is signifigantly faster than RSA
(Really Slow Algorithm). The cryptosystem was devised by Sarah Flannery,
aged 16, who spent a summer working at Baltimore Technologies. This and
her maths lecturer father must have given her the encouragement to
devise this cryptosystem.
My question to the august members of this list is, does anyone out there
have any details of this algorithm? The press story said something about
it being based on matrices, which of course reminds me of the IBM
announcement last year. Has anyone out there implemented Cramer-Shoup?
If so, is it similiar to the 30x faster than RSA reported in the BBC
atricle?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254236.stm
-Matt H.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:03