Still more on the Digicash protocol

Rev. Mark Grant mark at unicorn.com
Fri Dec 8 05:45:48 PST 1995


On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, David A Wagner wrote:

>Tough!?  It's trivial for an active attacker, in the stream cipher case.
>He just xors some bits: no clever cryptanalysis needed.  (Or did you mean
>it's tough to mount an active attack?  I agree: that requires significant
>knowledge or motivation.)

Exactly.. once you have an active attack set up, it's trivial, but setting
that up is quite hard. 

	Mark







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