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Re: Faster way to deescrow Clipper

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 08:25:48 1994

To: koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz )
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 20:13:09 PDT."
             <9406030313.AA19017@io.lrcs.loral.com> 
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 08:20:21 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>


David Koontz says:
> 
> >From: Matthew Ghio <ghio@cmu.edu>
> 
> >Or you could just steal someone else's LEAF, by keeping a copy of
> >it, and use that for spoofing.  Then you could have a valid IV
> >too...
> 
> Were you not to mind the adversary being able to get the session key, alice
> and bob could have an agreed upon modulous (XOR value) for the IV, that could
> be introduced by save and restore crypto state commands and xor.
> 
> (assuming that a mode were used behaving isosynchronous.)
> 
> Would law-enforcement carl know to ask national security bruce for help?

What the hell are you talking about? Indeed, what the hell have you
been talking about for days?

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