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

Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:22:12 -0500

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At 01:32 PM 9/21/98 -0700, bram wrote:
>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')

I am not an attorney, so I cannot advise on patentability. But note that
I simplified the explanation A LOT in the above paragraph.

Bruce
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