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Re: strong authentication without strong crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Nielsen)
Thu Feb 4 21:31:25 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:18:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com>
Reply-To: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: "David R. Conrad" <David_Conrad@isc.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <36BA482C.ED5D7411@isc.org>
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, David R. Conrad wrote:
> Quick question: does anyone know of technology or techniques that would
> facilitate strong authentication (_not_ encryption) for unattended high
> volume electronic transactions and does not require strong crypto along
> the lines of DSA or RSA? Shared secrets are not an option.
For authentication only that requires no crypto, try SRP.
http://srp.stanford.edu/srp/
--
Christopher Nielsen
Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator
<http://www.scient.com>
cnielsen@scient.com
