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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: String Encryption
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 12:56:27 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4h53trINNgtf@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1996Feb21.101532.15110@es.dupont.com> <4gqc2l$4o7@usenet.rpi.edu> <4gvd4oINNe5n@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <31356C8E.4A17@ix.netcom.com>
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- In article <31356C8E.4A17@ix.netcom.com>,
- James E. Fuller <jef@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >>
- >> .... There is no such thing as ``one way encryption''.
- >I thought that the phrase "one-way encryption" referred to those
- >methods, such as RSA, wherein the encryption key is different
- >from the decryption key (in the case of RSA, they're symmetric).
-
- That would probably be a better use for ``one-way'', though there is still
- obviously the possiblity of decrypting. From the point of view of one in
- possession of the prime factors p and q of the encryption modulus n, the RSA
- scheme is anything but ``one-way''.
-
- Oops. Off topic again...
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