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Re: "prior products lawful"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Sep 17 18:49:38 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:53:14 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Ron Rivest <rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
CC: cryptography@c2.net
Ron Rivest wrote:
> This is not a new
> idea--I have seen the idea of "program as encryption key" before (but
> don't have a reference available--I think it was one of the CRYPTO rump
> sessions).
Of course it is fundamental to Turing machines that any machine can be
simulated by feeding the appropriate data to a universal machine, so the
idea is as old as the idea of programs.
Cheers,
Ben.
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