Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)

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bram (bram@gawth.com)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:06 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:

> Here's the basic idea: Strew a million passwords on your hard drive, and
> make it impossible to verify which is the correct one offline. So, someone
> who steals the password file off the client cannot run a cracking tool
> against the file.

Is this really patentable? It sounds a *lot* like the original public-key
algorithm (the one involving lots of little 'puzzles')

-Bram

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