On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:29:41PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > The idea I like the most so far is the 'user-supplied random nonce' > idea. I like this idea because using a collection of other data is > liable to failure because stupid email systems manage to molest email > in the strangest fashion: "From " to ">From ", etc.
user-supplied random data plus system-generated random data would probably be required, to prevent collision between Alice and Bob both supplying the same random data. -john
