[107483] in Cypherpunks
Re: Sarah Flannery for FC 99! (was: Sarah Flannery speaks...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bennett Haselton)
Thu Jan 14 22:30:49 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:24:25 -0600
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990114182444.2200B-100000@denver>
Reply-To: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
How much does a faster public-key encryption algorithm gain? I thought the
conventional wisdom was that encrypted communications involved generating a
one-time session key that was enciphered using public-key encryption, and
then the rest of the transmission was encrypted with that session key as
the secret key -- so that the speed of the secret-key algorithm was what
made most of the difference.
-Bennett
At 06:28 PM 1/14/99 -0700, Jim Burnes - Denver wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Jim Gillogly wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:03:59 -0800
>> From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
>> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
>> Subject: Sarah Flannery speaks about patenting
>>
>> In an article in the Irish Independent
>> ( http://www.independent.ie/1999/13/d01o.shtml ) Sarah Flannery says:
>>
>> My project is mainly about maths. Patenting
>> maths doesn't help anyone to move science on.
>>
>
>Someone from cypherpunks should contact her and get her
>sbuscribed. But what is really needed is to get her
>algorithm analyzed, of course.
>
>Or perhaps a free trip for her to FC 99 ;-)
>
>Talk about a cool presentation. Talk about lots of PR for
>FC 99.
>
>Vince, are you out there? Are there any slots left?
>
>jim
>
>
bennett@peacefire.org (615) 421 5432 http://www.peacefire.org
