On 2/5/14, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Robert Ransom > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Trevor is talking about generating a 'human-friendly' human-verifiable >> 'fingerprint' of a *public* key, not generating a password from which >> a *symmetric* key can be derived.
> If you can generate a symmetric key, you can MAC the public keys with it. If you're talking about authenticating an interactive connection, I agree that that's an entirely different problem from representing and/or transmitting a fingerprint offline which can later be used to authenticate a public key non-interactively. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
