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Article #2356Re: Demons and Ogres
From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:34
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:34
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>>>>> ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) (TR) writes: >> Nonsense. My proposal is that, given the ciphertext, the user >> would be required to make it plain. This means that there would >> be a responsibility to log old *keys*, not conversations. TR> RSA gives public-key capability, but is slow. Typically, a TR> "public key" cryptosystem will only pass a session key under RSA, TR> and then use a faster private-key system to encipher the data. TR> Logging the session key would give the ability to recover the TR> plaintext at a later date. So that would make it a criminal offense to have a disk crash? -- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: Re: Demons and Ogres Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl Message-ID: <1992Nov23.103456.4754@cs.ruu.nl> In-Reply-To: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:34:56 GMT Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) References: <1455.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> <1992Nov22.075548.19378@cactus.org> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 15