The Elevator Problem

[Mutatis Mutantdis]

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