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  • 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3), Berlin, 29 December 2011: talk by Renaud Devalière and Jean-Jacques Quisquater, in cooperation with David Samyde,The future of cryptology: which 3 letters algorithm(s) could be our Titanic? RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, HMHS Britannic vs Discrete Logarithm, Integer factorization, Conjectured hard problems: talk is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4n7yUBtTt0


Documents

- "The end of RSA": a workshop in Menlo Park, January 2013: slides approved for public release (unlimited distribution):
with questions:
1. What is the state of RSA cryptanalysis?
2. What systems rely on RSA?
3. When RSA fails, how will we know that it has failed?
4. How can we remediate the failure of RSA-based systems?
5. Assuming that RSA has not yet failed, what should we do now to prepare?


Books

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House Trade Paperbacks; 2 edition (May 11, 2010).
http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness/dp/081297381X