Re: Key Pair Agreement?

2003-01-21 Thread Hal Finney
Jeroen writes: Here is a scenario: Scott wants Alice to generate a key pair after which he will receive Alice's public key. At the same time, Scott wants to make sure that this key pair is newly generated (has not been used before). How about a discrete log key where you fix p, q, and g.

Re: Key Pair Agreement?

2003-01-21 Thread Hal Finney
Another problem with this problem is that there are trivial solutions because it is difficult to ensure that SEED1 is functionally essential in the public key. For example, generate a public key PK using a normal method, and define the new public key PK' = (PK, SEED1). Then to encrypt to PK' the