Re: Chaffing and winnowing

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Stephen Zander (gibreel@pobox.com)
13 May 1998 09:32:46 -0700

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Rosen <mrosen@peganet.com> writes:
Mark> Note: 5A002 does not control the following: b. Equipment
Mark> containing ``fixed'' data compression or coding techniques;
Mark> ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a
Mark> Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to
Mark> ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to
Mark> authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of
Mark> data, text or other media other than that needed for the
Mark> authentication;

But wasn't that the gist of Rivest's paper: he's not encrypting the
message, he's just obscuring it really, really well.

All this needs someone with the cash & the time to push it to court... 

-- 
Stephen

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