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Re: pubkeys for p and g
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Fairbrother)
Fri Jun 27 15:02:20 2003
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100
From: Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> [2003.06.27.1903 +0200]:
>> Can you give me a ref to where they say that? I'd like to know
>> exactly what they are claiming.
>
> this will have to wait a couple of days.
>
>> Perhaps they are encrypting the DH secrets with RSA keys to provide some
>> recipient authentication?
>
> nope.
>
>> Or perhaps they are using DH instead of RSA for their public keys?
>
> nope.
Hmmm.
It's not exactly DH, but if you used the e of a RSA key as g, and the N as
p, that would actually work. It's only one RSA key tho'.
--
Peter Fairbrother
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