[103160] in Cypherpunks
Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bram)
Mon Sep 21 17:29:51 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <199809211030.FAA05159@mixer.visi.com>
Reply-To: bram <bram@gawth.com>
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> Here's the basic idea: Strew a million passwords on your hard drive, and
> make it impossible to verify which is the correct one offline. So, someone
> who steals the password file off the client cannot run a cracking tool
> against the file.
Is this really patentable? It sounds a *lot* like the original public-key
algorithm (the one involving lots of little 'puzzles')
-Bram
