From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:43:06 +0800
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: Safemail
Message-ID: <199606202137.RAA02239@unix.asb.com>
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On 20 Jun 96 at 10:29, Adam Shostack wrote in cypherpunks@toad.com:

> Not to defend the safemail folks, but this does remind me of something
> that NeXT did with Eliptic curve based systems; there was no storage
> of the private key, it was generated from the passphrase at run time.
> It was a side discussion, maybe with Andrew Lorenstien?  Andrew?

> Daniel R. Oelke wrote:

The HKS archives are still down, but a while back on the coderpunks 
list was an interestng idea about hashing a passphrase to seed a 
crypto PRNG and used the first good set of primes etc. for a secret 
and private key pair.  Only the private key is saved in such a case.

Rob
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