[103163] in Cypherpunks
Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Schneier)
Mon Sep 21 17:42:29 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:22:12 -0500
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980921133001.20069A-100000@blackbox>
Reply-To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
At 01:32 PM 9/21/98 -0700, bram wrote:
>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')
I am not an attorney, so I cannot advise on patentability. But note that
I simplified the explanation A LOT in the above paragraph.
Bruce
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