GMP cryptographic developments

Hans Aberg haberg at math.su.se
Wed Apr 1 16:38:08 CEST 2009


On 1 Apr 2009, at 09:24, Floria Lop wrote:

> The plan is to add cryptography functions such as mpz_rsakeygen and
> mpz_dsakeygen that implement the RSA and DSA algorithms, respectively,
> with builtin key escrow.  By default, private keys will be transferred
> securely to NSA for US users, and PRCIA for Chinese users, etc, but  
> this
> should of course be configurable.
>
> Please treat the information in this letter as confidential to the
> GMP project, so that it does not fall in the hands of terrorists.
> If these new functions do not get used, this security project will
> be less successful.  Remember, the governments are spying on us
> for our own safety and security!

Do these new features support Ghostnet?
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet
Ghostnet is very advanced: it supports voice and video over IP where  
you do not have open up the connections yourself, instead being done  
remotely without you even having to know of it.

   Hans




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