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- From: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de ()
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.140721.599@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
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- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <19253.Aug2700.31.1692@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 14:07:21 GMT
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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.
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-
- Does it? O.K., I'm IBM. Our key is:
-
- begin bigblue.key
- ;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU
- end
-
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- Now, can I withdraw some money from our account? I want to
- buy a Mac. Oops! Blown it.
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