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Re: More spec-ulations

1998-03-26 12:29:04
At 11:41 PM 3/25/98 -0500, nospam-seesignature(_at_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:
   1. If we are going to have a lame cipher for conventional encryption, why
   not also have one for the PK algorithms, e.g. DH, RSA, and the
   conventional key material plaintext as an MPI integer (for exportable
   samples).  Would we need this for hashes and/or signatures too?  Any weak
   (ROT-N like) alternatives?

Or we just remove the lame algorithms? There are places where it makes
sense to have unencrypted secret keys, and these were the only places
algorithm 0 has actually been used. I'm planning on noting such in the spec
and striking the lame algorithms.

        Jon


   


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