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Re: Safemail
On 20 Jun 96 at 10:29, Adam Shostack wrote in [email protected]:
> Not to defend the safemail folks, but this does remind me of something
> that NeXT did with Eliptic curve based systems; there was no storage
> of the private key, it was generated from the passphrase at run time.
> It was a side discussion, maybe with Andrew Lorenstien? Andrew?
> Daniel R. Oelke wrote:
The HKS archives are still down, but a while back on the coderpunks
list was an interestng idea about hashing a passphrase to seed a
crypto PRNG and used the first good set of primes etc. for a secret
and private key pair. Only the private key is saved in such a case.
Rob
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