[18914] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: How broad is the SPEKE patent.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Nov 11 10:01:38 2005
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: "cypherpunks@jfet.org" <cypherpunks@jfet.org>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:20:15 +0100
In-Reply-To: <43734B0E.20922.5A78B9@localhost> (James A. Donald's message of
"Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:28:46 -0800")
* James A. Donald:
> I figured that the obvious solution to all this was to deploy zero
> knowledge technologies, where both parties prove knowledge of the
> shared secret without revealing the shared secret.
Keep in mind that one party runs the required software on a computed
infected with spyware and other kinds of Trojan horses. This puts the
effectiveness of zero-knowledge proofs into question.
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