How are spoof decryptions prevented?

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:39:36 +0100


	On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 10:23:31 +0100
	David Parkinson <dparkins@alien.bt.co.uk> said...

> I have been wondering about the definition of "key".
> The attitude in UK-Crypto has been an "all-or-nothing" (preferably
> nothing!) approach.  I may have missed it, but nobody has
> really mentioned the alternative of delivering session keys.
> 
Yes, I mentioned it in my submission to the first DTI consultation, and
it was the major theme of my submission to the second (see my web page).
So the DTI cannot complain that the sense of using session keys has not
been fully explained to them.

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