1996-06-04 - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?

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From: gregmi@galileo.mis.net (Greg Miller)
To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
Message Hash: d91e62c1db4475b8dd41893e317173447cc4ea2c8fd9f5c2ab811ee852d9f580
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Reply To: <199606030447.XAA22063@manifold.algebra.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-06-04 07:12:40 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:12:40 +0800

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From: gregmi@galileo.mis.net (Greg Miller)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:12:40 +0800
To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
Subject: Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked?
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On Sun, 2 Jun 1996 23:47:32 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:

>Another question: what happens to the ecash issued by a bank if it's
>secret keys get stolen?

	The same thing that would happen if someone were to steal the keys to
the bank, and the combination to the vault.


"Randomness is in the eye of the beholder" --Numerical Recipes
gregmi@mis.net (Greg Miller)
http://grendel.ius.indiana.edu/~gmiller/

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• 1996-06-03 (Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:26:23 +0800) - Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
  • 1996-06-03 (Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:51:40 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
    • 1996-06-03 (Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:05:37 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
      • 1996-06-04 (Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:12:40 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - gregmi@galileo.mis.net (Greg Miller)
    • 1996-06-03 (Tue, 4 Jun 1996 05:41:40 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
  • 1996-06-03 (Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:11:21 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - gregmi@galileo.mis.net (Greg Miller)
  • 1996-06-04 (Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:10:12 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
    • 1996-06-04 (Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:59:38 +0800) - Re: Fate of Ecash if RSA is cracked? - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)