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Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Tue Aug 3 19:21:32 1999

To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: 03 Aug 1999 03:09:39 +0000
In-Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz's message of "Sun, 1 Aug 1999 08:51:25 (NZST)"

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:

> Is there any easy way to check this which doesn't involve writing a lot of 
> code and poking it at the ring to see how it'll react?  I have one of these 

Yes. Upload the ModExp demo applet and see if it will exponentiate two
large numbers correctly in the right amount of time (under a second).

Andreas

-- 
"We show that all proposed quantum bit commitment schemes are insecure because
the sender, Alice, can almost always cheat successfully by using an
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type of attack and delaying her measurement until she
opens her commitment." ( http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9603004 )


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