From: "Amanda Walker" <amanda@intercon.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 11:52:57 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Thoughts on 15 day CJ crypto
Message-ID: <9412161454.AA07036@chaos.intercon.com>
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> So it's possible the RSA requirement is in there to provide an 
> assurance that the right key was selected. 

I would be fairly surprised if this weren't the case, since it allows trial 
decryption to be done completely without human intervention.  This would speed 
up the cycle time (and reduce the resources needed) for decrypting intercepts, 
with more reliability than a straight statistical check on the candidate 
plaintext.


Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation