On 9/18/06, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/18/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Peter Loh wrote: > > How about encrypting the SMS message too? > > Encryption is not as important as authentication. Since the tallies are > supposed to be public knowledge anyway, it doesn't matter if the message > gets intercepted and read. No one will be able to cheat simply by > reading the messages containing the tallies. What will kill the system > is if someone can insert false messages that are interpreted by the > system as valid, or if someone is able to modify messages before they > are received by the system and have the modified messages accepted as > valid. Exactly. That's why it's better to have the messages encrypted. But it will only if every sender has its own key. Authentication at some level and encryption at the same time.
it depends on the encryption. we can have encryption and/or authentication. this is not available in phones though. moot point. -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
