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Re: big keys from small

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Lucks)
Fri May 30 13:57:52 1997

Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:01:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Stefan Lucks <slucks@gwdg.de>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <5981.wsimpson@greendragon.com>

On Fri, 30 May 1997, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> > From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
> > This can be done very securely, if used in conjunction with Diffie-Hellman.
> > See, for example, ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/smb/neke.ps.  ...
> 
> I was just asking about this the other week.  Take a look at SPEKE.
> See <http://world.std.com/~dpj/>
> 
> I was very impressed.  I hope that it's not patented, too.

Take a look at OKE. See
  http://www.num.math.uni-goettingen.de/lucks/papers/OKE.ps.gz


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