Crypto overhaul

[Jules Gilbert]

These days no one talks about how wonderful CPM was, we used it because 
at one time, it was the only OS available.

So what is our excuse for using SSL?, because I'm fairly certain the NSA 
and just about everyone else in the neighborhood has hacked it.

Question for the group...  Does anyone believe that factoring is 
actually hard.  It was once, I know.  But today?

I'm not a crypto person, but even I wrote a simple factoring program.  
In C, using MAPM.  I produce a few of the left-most bits for a,b, where:

c = a*b;

where a is:  3 .. sqrt(c)

and (of course,) b must be: greater than sqrt(c)

from this I bisect the space of 3 .. sqrt(c) and begin the recursive 
descent.  The program does about 5,000 prime pairs an hour and this 
using MAPM!!

I gave away the source code, let me know if you didn't get a copy.  
You'll need g++ and MAPM




On 10/27/2017 3:24 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> --------IQjeDjYnGtJpS9Q at mail.gmail.com>
> , Ben Laurie writes:
>
>> OpenSSL includes (and is used for) lots of crypto that is not used in
>> SSL - since BearSSL targets SSL/TLS only, it can't, presumably, be
>> used to replace all uses of OpenSSL.
> Which implicitly raises the question if we really need all the
> boatloads of crap OpenSSL drags in, or if we would be in a better
> position with something simpler and saner ?
>