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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0 |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:01:59 +0000 |
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:54, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>
> > People have tried to abuse the encryption form for one-to-many
> > purposes before now (either via a shared secret, which defeats the
> > point, or via encrypting multiple times, which is an infeasible use of
> > resources).
>
> The classic description of public/private key architecture has the
> public key being used to encrypt a session key. Couldn't the same
> session key be encrypted with multiple public keys? Or is that the
> "infeasible use of resources"?
Pretty much the same thing; it's slow. You can only get away with it
for small numbers of target keys.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Momchil Velikov, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Aaron Bentley, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Robert Collins, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Florian Weimer, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Florian Weimer, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Tom Lord, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Tom Lord, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Brian May, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Tom Lord, 2003/12/31