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Re: Secure RPC?
Hadmut Danisch writes:
>
>where can I get specs and informations about
>secure RPC?
You can get the source code and associated documentation from
ftp://bcm.tmc.edu/nfs. You'll need the files rpc_40*.shar and
secure_rpc*.shar. Note that this doesn't come with the actual DES
encryption routines; you'll have to find or write your own.
But:
[email protected] writes:
>
> I remember a referance to Sun's secure RPC where the puplic key
> was "insecure" because the it did not use a large "key" (to few bits?)
>
> does anyone one have info on this?
>
> -Pete
>
>Yup. The modulus is too small, and the key exchange was cryptanalyze
>by LaMacchia and Odlyzko. See
>
>@article{nfscrack,
> author = {Brian A. LaMacchia and Andrew M. Odlyzko},
> journal = {Designs, Codes, and Cryptography},
> pages = {46--62},
> title = {Computation of Discrete Logarithms in Prime Fields},
> volume = {1},
> year = {1991},
>}
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