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Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jan 29 18:28:32 2002
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:45:41 -0800
To: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@em.no-ip.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: "Cryptography List" <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
At 5:26 PM -0800 1/28/02, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>Well, a nice characteristic that RSA doesn't have is the ability of using as
>secret key a hash of the passphrase, which avoids the need of a secret
>keyring and the relative vulnerability to dictionary attacks. See e.g. the
>Pegwit application, which, in its version 9
>(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pegwit/) does not, AFAIK, infringe on any EC
>patent.
DSA shares this nice characteristic since the secret key is a (not quite)
160 bit number. (Some EC libraries implement DSA-style signatures in
elliptic fields.)
Cheers - Bill
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