FAQ corrections
Matt Schroth
Charles.M.Schroth at williams.edu
Sat Jul 24 10:08:46 PDT 1993
[I tried mailing this directly to Eric Raymond, but I got
a bounce message a day later.]
Eric,
I have read some things I think are incorrect in the FAQ you're
working on. I could be wrong, of course, but I wanted to point them
out to you anyway:
In the introduction to PKC, you say that "the Federal
Government's DES standard" is a PKC. Is there some way to
view DES as a public key system that I'm not aware of? I
have only seen it used as a symmetric key system.
In 3a, you state that "If you encode with *your* public key...".
I think you meant "with your private key...", as anyone can encode
something with a public key.
In 4a, "RSA stands for 'Rivest-Shamir-Adelson'"...his name
is Adleman.
I saw a few "more needed here's". Are you soliciting help for these,
or are you just not finished with those sections yourself?
Good luck,
Matt
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