Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

| >Briefly, it works like this: point A transmits an encrypted message to point | >B. Point B can decrypt this, if it knows the password. The decrypted text is | >then sent back to point A, which can verify the decryption, and confirm that | >point B really does know point A's password. Point A then sends the password | >to point B to confirm that it really is point A, and knows its own password. | | Isn't this a Crypto 101 mutual authentication mechanism (or at least a | somewhat broken reinvention of such)?... The description has virtually nothing to do with the actual algorithm proposed. Follow the link in the article - http://www.stealth-attacks.info/ - for an actual - if informal - description. -- Jerry