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Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)

To: Bruce Schneier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
From: Mok-Kong Shen <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:48:01 +0100
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Organization: Studenten; LRZ; Universitaet Muenchen
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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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