Date sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:38:36 +0200
To: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel A. Nagy)
Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On
Digital Cash-like Payment Systems
> One intresting security measure protecting valuable digital assets (WM
> protects private keys this way) is "inflating" them before encryption.
>
> While it does not protect agains trojan applications, it does a surprisingly
> good job at reducing attacks following the key logging + file theft pattern.
>
> This security measure depends on two facts: storage being much cheaper than
> bandwidth and transmission of long files being detectable, allowing for
> detecting and thwarting an attack in progress.
How does one inflate a key?
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> --
> Daniel
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