From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:53:29 +0800
To: Rick Smith <cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Please Beta test my communications cryptography product.
Message-ID: <199712060843.AAA20121@proxy3.ba.best.com>
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At 04:19 PM 12/5/97 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
> I admit I can't figure out what crypto mechanism Kong is really using since
> there's obfuscating talk of passphrases and secrets. 

Your secret key is 240 bit number modulo the order of the generator.  This
number is generated by hashing your secret file and passphrase.

Your public key is an elliptic point, equal to the secret key times 
the generator.

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