From: baum@newton.apple.com (Allen J. Baum)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 18:37:45 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Article: Common Randomness in Info Theory.....
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I thought this might be of interest to cypherpunkers.
The full title is:
Common Randomness in Information Theory and Cryptography
  - Pt. I: Secret Sharing

by Rupolph Ahlswede and Imre Csiszar in
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory V39 #4

It talks about generating a common random key at two terminals without
letting an eavesdropper obtain info about the key.

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