At 12:38 PM 12/29/03 -0500, Jerrold Leichter wrote:
...
Merkle's knapsack systems (which didn't work out for other reasons) had the
property that the public key was computed directly from the private key.
(The private key had a special form, while the public key was supposed to
look like a random
On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
Note that there is no theoretical reason that it should be possible
to figure out the public key given the private key, either, but it so
happens that it is generally possible to do so
So what's this generally possible business about?
Well, AFAIK
| Note that there is no theoretical reason that it should be
| possible to figure out the public key given the private key,
| either, but it so happens that it is generally possible to
| do so
|
| So what's this generally possible business about?
|
| Well, AFAIK its always possible, but I
| On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
| Note that there is no theoretical reason that it should be possible
| to figure out the public key given the private key, either, but it so
| happens that it is generally possible to do so
| So what's this generally possible business about?
|
Ben Laurie wrote:
Ian Grigg wrote:
What is the source of the acronym PAIN?
Lynn said:
... A security taxonomy, PAIN:
* privacy (aka thinks like encryption)
* authentication (origin)
* integrity (contents)
* non-repudiation
I.e., its provenance?
Google shows only a few hits, indicating
it is not
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 09:03, Ian Grigg wrote:
What is the source of the acronym PAIN?
I.e., its provenance?
Google shows only a few hits, indicating
it is not widespread.
iang
I just tried
+security +pain +privacy +authentication +integrity
on alta vista and it claims to have over
Ian Grigg wrote:
What is the source of the acronym PAIN?
Lynn said:
... A security taxonomy, PAIN:
* privacy (aka thinks like encryption)
* authentication (origin)
* integrity (contents)
* non-repudiation
I.e., its provenance?
Google shows only a few hits, indicating
it is not widespread.
At 03:03 AM 12/21/2003, Ian Grigg wrote:
What is the source of the acronym PAIN?
I've seen, for many years, the acronym CAIN, where the C is
Confidentiality. I think that was in the Orange Book.
There's also, historically, an R for Robustness or Reliability in many
military contexts, instead of
