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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <6002@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 22:36:50 GMT
- References: <19253.Aug2700.31.1692@virtualnews.nyu.edu> <1992Aug28.140721.599@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: usenet@transfer.stratus.com
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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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.
-