1998-08-24 - Re: “Unbreakable Crypto” announcement??

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@weathership.homeport.org>
To: Chip Mefford <fade@mail1.i1.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-08-24 20:49:25 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:49:25 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@weathership.homeport.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
To: Chip Mefford <fade@mail1.i1.net>
Subject: Re: "Unbreakable Crypto" announcement??
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Cramer & Shoup presented a paper this AM with some provable
properties; ie, if decisional DH is hard, then their system is hard as
well.

Adam


On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 03:22:42PM -0400, Chip Mefford wrote:
| On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Fade wrote:
| > Does anyone with access to the Financial Times know what the hell this
| > snippet is talking about??
| > 
| > -=fade=-
| > 
| > ENCRYPTION BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED TODAY
| > August 24, 1998
| > 
| >      According to the Financial Times a new "unbreakable" encryption
| > technology, called the "Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem," will be annouced today
| 
| check out http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shoup/papers/
| 
| > 
| > 





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