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Re: Something really new???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Jablon)
Sun Feb 8 12:45:49 1998
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 11:24:03 -0500
To: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Jablon <dpj@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802062249.OAA07789@s20.term1.sb.rain.org>
At 02:49 PM 2/6/98 -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
>Regarding ...
>> http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_st4443.html
>
>Sounds like the "receive two envelopes, open one, pass the other
>back and have it destroyed" is a layman's description of a two-string
>oblivious transfer.
Yes, the real paper on this does describe how oblivious transfer
can remotely prove knowledge of a small shared secret. See Moni Naor's
site at <http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/compare.html>
to get this.
It discusses oblivious transfer and a number of other mostly manual
methods, many of which use a trusted third party or shared computer.
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David Jablon
Integrity Sciences, Inc.
dpj@world.std.com
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