[49450] in Cypherpunks
Re: POTP gets good press
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Feb 7 16:31:24 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:23:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, storer@pcinews.com
In-Reply-To: <199602071956.MAA17880@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Bryce wrote:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> Content: includes diagrams entitled "Link Level Encryption"
> in which sender transmits keys to receiver, and "Packet
> Level Encryption" in which sender transmits key sto
> certificate authority which transmits them to multiple
> receivers, and "Synchronized Random Key Generation (SRKG)"
>
> Am I right in thinking this is utter unmitigated
> bullsh snake oil? Does anybody have any other
It could be doing something SKIP like; if the certificates are DH certs,
it could be using those to generate a shared secret, and combing that
with an IV to generate a key.
hard to tell from the article
Simon
