On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, David R. Conrad wrote:
>
> > Quick question: does anyone know of technology or techniques that would
> > facilitate strong authentication (_not_ encryption) for unattended high
> > volume electronic transactions and does not require strong crypto along
> > the lines of DSA or RSA? Shared secrets are not an option.
>
> For authentication only that requires no crypto, try SRP.
>
> http://srp.stanford.edu/srp/
Apologies for responding to my own message, but I should qualify what I
said. A subset of SRP requires no crypto. Read the paper for a better
explanation.
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Christopher Nielsen
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