On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> However, the RSA encryption and decryption algorithms are inverses of > > each other so one could make a signature by applying RSA decryption to > > a message text. Only the person having the private key is capable of > > doing this! > > What are you talking now? It does not make any sense to me. > > > The recipient would then apply RSA encryption (since the public key is > > public!) to read the message and if this works then it verifies the > > sender as well! > > Hey, I was talking math and you are talking something else. > > >> RSA is basically an implementation of this concept a^b^c = a ^c^b = > >> a^bc with modulo N thrown in. > > > > I think you are confusing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange with RSA. > > Absolutely not true! > > I am talking RSA. Not Diffie Hellman. > On matters mathematics I would trust Dr. Kapil more than anyone else on this list! regds, mano _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
