Re: A new way to hide from Google and Yahoo

[Denis Jedig <seclists () syneticon de>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> (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.

Using asymmetric cryptography based on primes (*especially* RSA) for the 
exchange of actual data is a reliable way to break the security of 
communications. They are susceptible to the "known plaintext" class of 
attacks unless random padding is used to mitigate this issue. Anyway, it 
is rather a waste - symmertic ciphers are significantly more efficient.

Denis

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