[45487] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Elevator Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Fri Dec 15 23:37:44 1995
From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
To: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@midwest.net>, <Cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:08:25 GMT
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:11:45 -0600, David E. Smith wrote:
[..]
>The way I understand the system, in order for Alice to have Bob's key (and
>vice versa) they each have to transmit a considerable amount of data about
>their keys. Even if those data are in the form of "twenty questions," neither
>knows anything about the other's key at the start. Is there something
>painfully obvious that I'm missing?
Oddly enough, I saw this posted the same night I saw the timing-attack
against RSA announced. Is there a connection here?
If we assume a hypothetical future where the current families of
public key encryption can be easily broken, anyhow...
--Mutant Rob
