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Re: Useful El Gamal Variant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Mon Aug 11 16:08:17 1997
To: "Perry's crypto list" <cryptography@c2.net>,
Richard Pinch <rgep@cam.ac.uk>
From: John Kelsey <kelsey@plnet.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 13:46:53 CDT
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[ To: Richard Pinch, sci.crypt, Perry's Crypto List ##
Date: 08/08/97 10:19 pm ##
Subject: Re: Useful El Gamal Variant ]
>Subject: Re: Useful El Gamal Variant
>From: Richard Pinch <rgep@cam.ac.uk>
>Sender: rgep@rgep.quns.cam.ac.uk
>Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 10:39:13 +0100
>You might like to compare this with a paper by Christian Cachin
>at the last IMA Cirencester meeting, December '95. See his
>article in the proceedings, Cryptography and Coding, ed. Colin
>Boyd, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1025,
>pp. 190--198 and a subsequent paper on mine in Electronic
>Letters, vol. 32, no. 12 (6th June 1996) 1087--1088.
I found the Cryptography and Coding paper, and looked at it
briefly. There are some similarities in what we're trying to
do, but the methods are fairly different. Was your Electronic
Letters article closer to what I was doing, i.e. using an
El Gamal encryption variant to efficiently handle multiple
recipients?
>--
>Richard Pinch Queens' College, Cambridge
>rgep@cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~rgep
--John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey@counterpane.com
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--John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey@counterpane.com
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