Re: User authentication

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From: Carl Ellison
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:36

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In article <1992Aug28.140721.599@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
> O.K., I'm IBM.  Our key is:
>
>	begin bigblue.key
>	;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU
>	end
>
>
>Now, can I withdraw some money from our account?

No problem.

Your account is named by your public key -- not by some silly collection
of letters, such as "IBM".

The money in the account all came from the person who knew the factorization
of that RSA key -- so the person who knows the factorization is allowed
to take it out.

Glad to meet you, IBM.

However, I don't see any money in the account # ;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU

Sorry.

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