Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 10:57:33 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: pst@Shockwave.COM (Paul Traina) Cc: mycroft@ai.mit.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, security@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: key exchange for rlogin/telnet services? Message-ID: <9502271757.AA02322@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502271728.JAA03786@precipice.Shockwave.COM> from "Paul Traina" at Feb 27, 95 09:28:51 am
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> Hence the disclaimer in front... can you go any further than "take this with > 3 grains of salt?" > > I'll go dig out my copy of applied crypto and see where I went wrong, but > I was almost positive you needed to use RSA to bootstrap the initial > secret exchange. [ ... ] > Diffie-Hellman key exchange has no relation to RSA public key > encryption. I thought (well, RSA thinks) that the RSA patents cover *all* known public key encryption techniques? Diffie-Hellman requires public key for the initial exchange, and is in fact a technique for secure exchange of keys. I thought it was also patented by PKP/RSA? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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