- From: Bennet Yee <bsy@cs.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 17:22:20 -0700
- To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
- cc: Steve Petri <petri@litronic.com>, ietf-tls@w3.org
That's saying it's *not* known *only* to the sender and receiver, because the assymetric cryptography is weak. If a MAC key to be shared between you and me is derived by me shouting the key value to you in the midst of a crowd, it's not very good either. -bsy -------- Bennet S. Yee Phone: +1 619 534 4614 Email: bsy@cs.ucsd.edu Web: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/ USPS: Dept of Comp Sci and Eng, 0114, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
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