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1998-09-21 - Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)

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From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
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Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980921133001.20069A-100000@blackbox>
Reply To: <199809211030.FAA05159@mixer.visi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-09-21 07:15:04 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:15:04 +0800

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From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:15:04 +0800
To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Subject: Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:

> Here's the basic idea:  Strew a million passwords on your hard drive, and
> make it impossible to verify which is the correct one offline.  So, someone
> who steals the password file off the client cannot run a cracking tool
> against the file.

Is this really patentable? It sounds a *lot* like the original public-key
algorithm (the one involving lots of little 'puzzles')

-Bram

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