RIP cracked via encryption? [The Register]

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:

> MOOT was on cryptome days ago.

Then whomever runs it must have been asleep, again.
 
> Also isn't the idea plenty old, EKE for instance?

Everything is old, we just keep rediscovering it.

> What MOOT seems to be addressing are some of the practical problems of
> insecure systems in addition to the basic crypto.

The point being if it really makes grabbing the real keys impossible then
it is different than anything that's come before.

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