"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:

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.

My computers have no undetected spyware and Trojan horses. Peter.