On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:11:45 -0600, David E. Smith wrote: [..]

The way I understand the system, in order for Alice to have Bob's key (and vice versa) they each have to transmit a considerable amount of data about their keys. Even if those data are in the form of "twenty questions," neither knows anything about the other's key at the start. Is there something painfully obvious that I'm missing?

Oddly enough, I saw this posted the same night I saw the timing-attack against RSA announced. Is there a connection here? If we assume a hypothetical future where the current families of public key encryption can be easily broken, anyhow... --Mutant Rob