1994-07-08 - Re: Question: Key Distr. in realtimeo applications?

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From: cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu (Jonathan Rochkind)
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From: cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 94 19:55:45 PDT
To: jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu (Jonathan Rochkind)
Subject: Re: Question: Key Distr. in realtimeo applications?
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> If so, how is this key distributed to both participants?

Find Diffie-Hellman in your Schneier.

D-H is a fundamental (in the sense of foundations) protocol which
transmits information "invisibly" (mathematically speaking).

For related invisibility, read about the Dining Cryptographers.

Cort.




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