Subject: [saag] ECC April fools

From: Robert Moskowitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 12:14:21 -0400

From WIlliam Whyte on the IEEE 1609 (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) discussion:

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Subject: 	ECC April Fool's warning
Date: 	Fri, 1 Apr 2016 00:08:51 -0400
From: 	William Whyte <[email-masked]>
To: 	William Whyte <[email-masked]>

Hey all -- there's a blog post up at 
https://ellipticnews.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/ecdlp-can-be-solved-in-24-th-root-time/ 
claiming that ECC can be broken in time q^{1/24} rather than q^{1/2}, 
i.e. that ECC keys need to be twelve times longer to have the same 
security level. Just a head's up that this is in fact an April Fool's 
joke rather than, as it would otherwise be, a complete catastrophe for 
V2V. If anyone comes across this story, rest assured it isn't true.

Cheers,

William