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Re: GeeK: Re: Rivest's Chaffing and Winnowing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Tue Mar 24 13:15:32 1998
To: crypto list <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:56:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5CEA8663F24DD111A96100805FFE658705449B54@red-msg-51.dns.microsoft.com> from "Matt Thomlinson" at Mar 23, 98 05:40:53 pm
Matt Thomlinson wrote:
> you miss the point. Just use winnowing chaffing for what it is best at:
> bootstrapping a secure channel from an authenticated one. After that, resume
> normal crypto usage.
This sort of "authenticated channel" requires that both ends share a
secret key. Just use a secret-key cryptosystem, eh?
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Eli Brandt | eli+@cs.cmu.edu | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/
