[91003] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hospitality for the Home and Office Invaders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Nov 27 04:02:48 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:29:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: Ryan Lackey <rdl@mit.edu>
cc: cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com, Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
In-Reply-To: <tw7btz651cu.fsf@tana.mit.edu>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
On 27 Nov 1997, Ryan Lackey wrote:
>
> ObCrypto: if I decide to use Goldwasser-Micali Probabilistic Encryption
> (provable security for individual bits, etc. etc.), have I done anything
> totally wrong? For TX of week-long session keys, as an alternative to
> OTP.
Is that the IBM scheme? If so, you have no guarantee to be able to recover
the plaintext.
-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
"Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
