RSA or DSA? That's the question
    Robert J. Hansen 
    rjh at sixdemonbag.org
       
    Fri Sep  7 20:09:30 CEST 2007
    
    
  
Ryan Malayter wrote:
> A general technique which allows RSA to be broken is far more
> valuable than a general break in DSA or ElGamal.
Breaking the discrete log problem also breaks the integer factorization
problem.  IFP can be seen as a special case of the DLP.
Breaking DLP breaks every asymmetric algo in OpenPGP.  Breaking IFP may
only break RSA.
    
    
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