Brian Mearns wrote: >if anyone knows of a >public key system that can realistically be done by pencil and paper
... >anything that can reasonably be >done by hand wouldn't be secure. >Oh well. Pad locks it is. =) don't know of any 'public key' systems, but there are 'by hand' systems that are described as secure http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html the problems with a 'by hand' system are: - getting a sufficiently 'random' key, - being able to share it with a correspondent, - and being able to change it with each message try asking on sci.crypt David Wagner is a respected cryptographer who occasionally answers interesting crypto questions for the other posters there, some are very helpful and some are not at all and some vary ... ;-) vedaal any ads or links below this message are added by hushmail without my endorsement or awareness of the nature of the link _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
