Re: [Cryptography] Symmetric cipher + Backdoor = Public Key System

2013-09-08 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Sep 7, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> I'm not as yet seeing that a block cipher with a backdoor is a public >> key system, > > Then read the Blaze & Feigenbaum paper I posted a link to. It makes a > very good case for that, one that Jerry unaccountably does not seem to > believe.

[Cryptography] Symmetric cipher + Backdoor = Public Key System

2013-09-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 10:30:20 +0300 ianG wrote: > > I'm not as yet seeing that a block cipher with a backdoor is a public > key system, Then read the Blaze & Feigenbaum paper I posted a link to. It makes a very good case for that, one that Jerry unaccountably does not seem to believe. Blaze seem