Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-31 Thread John Kelsey
From: cyphrpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 27, 2005 9:15 PM To: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems On 10/26/05, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one inflate a key? Just make

Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-28 Thread cyphrpunk
On 10/26/05, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one inflate a key? Just make it bigger by adding redundancy and padding, before you encrypt it and store it on your disk. That way the attacker who wants to steal your keyring sees a 4 GB encrypted file which actually holds about a