Re: How broad is the SPEKE patent.

13 Nov 2005


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James A. Donald:
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I figured that the obvious solution to all this was
to deploy zero knowledge technologies, where both
parties prove knowledge of the shared secret without
revealing the shared secret.
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Keep in mind that one party runs the required software
on a computed infected with spyware and other kinds of
Trojan horses.  This puts the effectiveness of
zero-knowledge proofs into question.
My computers do not have spyware and Trojan horses.


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