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Re: User authentication

#759
From: frank
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:07
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brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
: If you hear that IBM just did something, do you care what *real people*
: are involved in making that decision for IBM? You might, but IBM doesn't
: have to tell you, and business will go on even if you don't know. The
: only problem---the problem that public-key cryptography solves---is that
: somebody else might pretend to be IBM, the IBM you already know, without
: IBM's approval. If IBM signs its messages then this problem disappears.


Does it?  O.K., I'm IBM.  Our key is:

	begin bigblue.key
	;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU
	end


Now, can I withdraw some money from our account?  I want to
buy a Mac.  Oops!  Blown it.
--
Frank O'Dwyer		       			Disclaimer: 
Siemens-Nixdorf AG 	                        I will deny everything
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