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Re: A proposal for secure videoconferencing and videomessaging over
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL 'Bob' Morgan)
Fri Jul 28 19:34:54 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>
Reply-To: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
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> "Provably secure" is a word applicable to cyphers, not protocols. To use
> it in reference to a protocol is nonsense gibberish.
A Google search on "provably secure protocol" comes up with, among others:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/honey/talks/cardis98/tsld001.htm
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/bellare95provably.html
http://www.nluug.nl/events/zomer97/progboekje/lezing3.html
http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/proceedings/HTML/PDF/E92/307.PDF
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/1807/18070156.htm
It would appear that this Honeyman fellow is responsible for quite a bit
of this gibberish ...
- RL "Bob"
