ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
Mok-Kong Shen
mok-kong.shen at stud.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Sep 21 15:06:11 PDT 1998
Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
> At 08:59 AM 9/22/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> >A question : How does the legitimate user find his password?
> >(Sorry for not having followed this thread from the beginning.)
>
> He uses a remembered secret and some mathematical magic.
Another naive question: Why is the remembered secret not sufficient
(thus doing away with the magic)?
M. K. Shen
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