Can you break my encryption protocol ? - improvements

Martin Diehl mdiehl at dttus.com
Wed Jan 10 13:59:06 PST 1996


          On 1/9/96 at 1:55pm, Bob Baldwin wrote:

          > Mark,
          >    The protocol works well ...
          [SNIP]
          > Server computes:
          >   X = Dec(K, Vs)
          >   Test that H(X) = Ns, if not ...
          > All subsequent communications should be encrypted with K.
          >   -- Bob Baldwin

          I think that the last part should be:

          Server computes:
            X = Dec(K, Vc)
            Test that H(X) = Nc

          Martin G. Diehl







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