From: chen@intuit.com (Mark Chen)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 95 22:59:41 PDT
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Crypto '95
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> 	The best talks were probably by Ross Anderson (Robustness
> Principles for Public Key Protocols) and Adi Shamir (Myths and
> Realities of Cryptography).

One interesting aspect of Anderson's result is that it decisively
breaks X.509 (he shows how to forge signatures in
encrypt-before-signing protocols by computing a discrete log over the
RSA modulus).  I strongly recommend the paper.


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