How broad is the SPEKE patent.

[Peter Gutmann]

"James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> writes:
>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.

My computers have no undetected spyware and Trojan horses.

Peter.