How broad is the SPEKE patent.

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Nov 13 14:17:56 PST 2005


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James A. Donald:
> > I figured that the obvious solution to all this was
> > to deploy zero knowledge technologies, where both
> > parties prove knowledge of the shared secret without
> > revealing the shared secret.

Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>
> Keep in mind that one party runs the required software
> on a computed infected with spyware and other kinds of
> Trojan horses.  This puts the effectiveness of
> zero-knowledge proofs into question.

My computers do not have spyware and Trojan horses.


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