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Re: Remailer passphrases

To: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: Remailer passphrases
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:30:51 -0500
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:30:06 PST." <[email protected]>
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Bill Frantz writes:
> >Signed Diffie-Hellman key exchanges have the property known as
> >"Perfect Forward Secrecy". Even if the opponent gets your public keys
> >it still will not decrypt any traffic for him at all -- it just lets
> >him pretend to be you. Thats one reason why protocols like Photuris
> >and Oakley use the technique.
> 
> Unless I am badly mistaken, these exchanges need interaction, which makes
> them unsuitable for simple remailers.

Well, actually, you can play similar tricks with El Gamal...

Perry

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