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Re: A Method of Session Key Generation {humor, no content}

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Jan 31 19:31:29 1999

Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:14:25 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>


At 03:53 AM 1/31/99 -0500, <innocent person> wrote:
>For an online protocol, Alice and Bob both generate a random N-bit session
>key.  

>As long as at least one of them had some decent entropy, they're fine.

Say honey, did you bring the entropy? 

Uh, no dear, I thought you did?

You *know* what the cryptographers say about key exchange without using
entropy!








  





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