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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Registering keys
- Message-ID: <a_rubin.721602071@dsg4.dse.beckman.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:01:11 GMT
- References: <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl>
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- In <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl> garfield@utopia.hacktic.nl (garfield) writes:
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- >Why all the fuss about registering keys?? If they want them.. give them
- >what they want.. If everyone registeres 10 or 15 keys and each key is 10K
- >in size.... Then they have a slight problem of storage...
-
- No, no, no...you just don't have the right attitude.
-
- What you do is register 2^32 keys (you have a key-generating function
- with a 32 bit seed).
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