From: “Rev. Mark Grant” <mark@unicorn.com>
To: David A Wagner <daw@guaymas.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 95 05:45:48 PST
To: David A Wagner <daw@guaymas.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Still more on the Digicash protocol
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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, David A Wagner wrote:
>Tough!? It's trivial for an active attacker, in the stream cipher case.
>He just xors some bits: no clever cryptanalysis needed. (Or did you mean
>it's tough to mount an active attack? I agree: that requires significant
>knowledge or motivation.)
Exactly.. once you have an active attack set up, it's trivial, but setting
that up is quite hard.
Mark
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