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Re: GeeK: Re: Rivest's Chaffing and Winnowing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Tue Mar 24 16:40:56 1998
To: crypto list <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:54:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9803241810.AA28064@mentat.com> from "Jim Gillogly" at Mar 24, 98 10:10:01 am
Jim Gillogly wrote:
> Eli Brandt says:
> > This sort of "authenticated channel" requires that both ends share a
> > secret key. Just use a secret-key cryptosystem, eh?
>
> But then it wouldn't be an exportable system.
Some context has been lost: the prior message suggested that the
appropriate use of winnowing/chaffing was to generate a shared secret
for a conventional system.
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Eli Brandt | eli+@cs.cmu.edu | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/
