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Article #2701Re: Public Key Ciphers
From: Derek Atkins
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:43
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:43
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If you are trying to secure the network, and if you can trust the
machines that you are trying to secure, then I suggest you look into
Kerberos (comp.protocols.kerberos, or kerberos@mit.edu). It is based
on DES, and uses shared secrets between entities to prove
authenticity.
It doesn't sound like you need real-time key distribution, which is
something that Public Key algorithms have over secret-key algorithms,
but if you have physical access to both machines, then you can place a
shared secret on both machines and now that link is secure...
I hope this helps. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
-derek
PGP 2 key available upon request, or via AFS:
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/w/a/warlord/pgp-pubkey.asc
--
Derek Atkins, MIT '93, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Chairman, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
MIT Media Laboratory, Speech Research Group
warlord@MIT.EDU PP-ASEL N1NWH
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!news.mit.edu!warlord From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) Subject: Re: Public Key Ciphers In-Reply-To: george@minster.york.ac.uk's message of 20 Jan 93 14:25:00 GMT Message-ID: <WARLORD.93Jan20204310@m1-115-7.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m1-115-7.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <727539899.8167@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:43:17 GMT Lines: 23