SSL trouble

Will French wfrench at interport.net
Sat Aug 26 14:22:25 PDT 1995


> Use integrity checks to ensure that the slaves are acting
> properly. One method of doing this is to keep secret part of
> the known plaintext (say 16 bits). A slave is required to
> report _all_ matches in the range to the master. Slaves who
> report a statistically low number of matches may be considered
> suspicious. It is a simple matter to allocate part of that
> keyspace to another processor for a double-check.

  Please don't do anything like this.  This will prevent people
like me who prefer the "random" method from participating.


Will French  <wfrench at interport.net>






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