Re: [Cryptography] Introducing strangers. Was: Thoughts about keys

2013-09-11 Thread Guido Witmond
On 09/11/13 10:43, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:01:49PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: My scheme does the opposite. It allows *total strangers* to exchange keys securely over the internet. With a FOAF routing scheme with just 3 degrees of separation there are not that many

Re: [Cryptography] Squaring Zooko's triangle

2013-09-11 Thread Guido Witmond
hope it has become clear how I square the triangle. Feel free to point out omissions, request clarifications. With kind regards, Guido Witmond 0: http://eccentric-authentication.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-09-10 Thread Guido Witmond
Hi Peter, We really have different designs. I'll comment inline. On 09/09/13 19:12, Peter Fairbrother wrote: On 09/09/13 13:08, Guido Witmond wrote: I like to look at it the other way round, retrieving the correct name for a key. You don't give someone your name, you give them an 80-bit

Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-09-10 Thread Guido Witmond
. You won't even lose the connections to other people if you have already established an independent message channel with most of them. Regards, Guido Witmond. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ The cryptography mailing list

[Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-09-09 Thread Guido Witmond
Hi Perry, I just came across your message [0] on retrieving the correct key for a name. I believe that's called Squaring Zooko's Triangle. I've come up with my ideas and protocol to address this need. I call it eccentric-authentication. [1,2] With Regards, Guido. 0: