larry a price wrote: > for instance alice and bob want to share secrets, so they agree that they > will use the output of karen's key server for a specific hour or minute > as the input for a key-stream generating algorithm, given that eve has to > catch the output of not only karen's key server but also that of all her > kousins (karl,kari,kevin....) it does become practically difficult for > eve to find the keys, not impossible, merely improbable.
Nope. All Eve has to do is record the keys every minute, then try all of them. There are only 500,000 minutes in a year, so it isn't a large search space at all. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
