Re: about an elegant variant of Diffie Hellman key exchange algorithm

"Sylvain" <sylvain.subileau@gmail.com> writes:
> E. Hughes, "An Encrypted Key Transmission Protocol," presented at the
> rump session of CRYPTO 94, Aug. 1994."
>
> I can this article!! Someone know where I can get this rarity...

I don't think there was a paper published, there was just a 1-page
overhead slide. It was a pretty simple alternative to DH but you
could do the same thing these days with RSA. (RSA was still covered
by a US patent in 1994). Doesn't Applied Cryptography explain how it
worked?
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:39:33 2005