also sprach Arnold G. Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.29.0424 +0200]:
> >I am not sure I understand. How does this relate to my question?
> >
> >Where does the other factor come from?
>
> I got the impression, and maybe I misunderstood, that you were
> viewing a product of two primes aA, wh
also sprach Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.27.2230 +0200]:
> Do you have a reference to what exactly Check Point says about this?
> Maybe you are misunderstanding or misinterpreting them. If you could
> quote it here verbatim (or provide a link if it is online) we might be
> able to und
martin f krafft writes:
> My point was that some commercial vendors (Check Point and others)
> claim, that if two partners want to perform a DH key exchange, they
> may use their two public keys for g and p. This, in effect, would
> mean that g and p were not globally known, but that the public key
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Peter Fairbrother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.27.1903 +0200]:
>> Can you give me a ref to where they say that? I'd like to know
>> exactly what they are claiming.
>
> this will have to wait a couple of days.
>
>> Perhaps they are encrypting the DH secrets wi
martin f krafft wrote:
> My point was that some commercial vendors (Check Point and others)
> claim, that if two partners want to perform a DH key exchange, they
> may use their two public keys for g and p. This, in effect, would
> mean that g and p were not globally known, but that the public ke
> I'm not certain I understand your questions, but here are some
> answers (I think).
To clear this up:
I am well aware how DH works, and what the mathematical properties
of p and g are and have to be.
My point was that some commercial vendors (Check Point and others)
claim, that if two partners
I'm not certain I understand your questions, but here are some answers (I
think).
In the DH protocol you have what we call public parameters, p and g.
p is a large prime integer, which defines a group Z*p, g is a generator
which
defines a subgroup in Z*p.
You can use fix values for p an g.
Now, par
