From: cactus@seabsd.hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 14:45:00 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: QUERY: S/Keyish PGP?
Message-ID: <199501102249.RAA01602@bb.hks.net>
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I'm catching up on old mail...


In response to my query, 
Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>| A quick question: Has anybody considered the possibility of hacking
>| something into PGP's password protection to allow an S/Key like access?
>
>	I thought of this, bounced it off a few people, none of whom
>caught the flaw.  When I got around to implementing it, I realized
>that for it to work, your key would have to be securely stored on your
>unix box without encryption.

I caught that.  What I was hoping for was something that would allow
a key to be use for a specific purpose once and only once by a given
passphrase.  Ideally, this could be done on a machine that was totally
insecure.

I didn't catch the fundamental flaw, though.  If the machine is
compromised the key can always be compromised by taking an image of the
previous state and replaying whatever passphrase was intercepted.

Bummer.
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