[linux-elitists] Phil Zimmermann on key exchange

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, AARG! Anonymous wrote:

> means of directly authenticating. Strangers do not have secrets, by
> definition.

Strangers are secrets by definition, otherwise they wouldn't be strangers.

In fact it IS possible to exchange (anonymously to boot) secrets provided
the infrastructure is distributed and the encryption is of the suitable
type (ie using 'small world' network models). The problme with all the
current schemes is that the 'public key' is too 'public'.


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