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Re: Square pegs in round holes, matchmaking, corporate mailservers
At 10:12 AM 3/7/96 -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
>I don't think this satisfies the requirements. Once Bob calculates H'
>and sees that it matches H, he knows that Alice likes him, but Alice
>doesn't know that he likes her. The whole point of the protocol was to
>be fair. Bob must only learn that Alice likes him if Alice is guaranteed
>to learn that he likes her.
Hmmm, you're right - Bob still has the choice at the end to reveal or
not reveal to Alice that he was the one who sent the note.
Back to the drawing board.
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