following-up to my own post: On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:22 PM, zooko wrote:
> it > appears to me that the idea of encrypting the actual data with a hash > of the plaintext was proposed in the previous message, by Lee Daniel > Crocker: > > http://marc.info/?l=freenet-dev&m=97941517231034&w=2 Oh, and then I happened upon this note in the cypherpunks mailing list, 1996-02-23, in which Bill Stewart replies to John Perritt's suggestion to use the secure hash of the plaintext as the symmetric encryption key: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/02/msg02013.html For some reason I can't find John Perritt's original message in the archive, only Bill Stewart's follow-up. Regards, Zooko O'Whielacronx _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
