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[Cryptography] Symmetric cipher + Backdoor = Public Key System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Sep 7 19:56:16 2013
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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 19:56:09 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: ianG <iang@iang.org>
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On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 10:30:20 +0300
ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not as yet seeing that a block cipher with a backdoor is a public
> key system,
Then read the Blaze & Feigenbaum paper I posted a link to. It makes a
very good case for that, one that Jerry unaccountably does not seem to
believe. Blaze seemed to still believe the result as of a few days ago.
Perry
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