CSvax:mab (10/26/82)
Shamir cracked the knapsack encryption scheme, not the RSA. I don't
remember the details offhand (there was a talk at Crypto 82 about it,
but I don't have the extended abstract at hand) but if you iterated the
encryption method, Shamir's attack would fail. Adelman claims to have
gotten around this; again I don't know details.
As far as I know, RSA is still secure if you pick your numbers right.
Matt Bishop
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