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Re: actual deployment of various PK & Key-exchange algorthms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Aug 2 09:52:45 2000
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:23:26 -0700
To: Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu, cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu
At 9:14 AM -0700 7/27/00, Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu wrote:
>A colleague asked yesterday "I wonder how much Diffie-Hellman is actually
>used?", as we were sitting around talking about authentication (in
>particular)
>and security (in general) protocols.
>
>So I'm curious, are there any studies on what is actually deployed "out
>there"
>and/or available in products -- qualified as the set of algorithms discussed
>in Chapters 19 and 22 of Applied Cryptography 2nd Ed?
The E protocol uses Diffie Hellman authenticated with DSA. Details (and
source code) are available at http://www.erights.org
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