Re: [MacPerl] Public key risks

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 14.21 7/10/97, Dick Karpinski wrote:
>>Even public-key doesn't seem safe...the whole problem is that anyone who
>>sniffs packets sees everything that gets sent, in whatever for it's sent.
>
>THat is exactly the circumstance where public key is safe.  THe key is
>public and things encrypted with it are private, as long as the private
>key is still private.  Even if the message and the public key are printed
>in every newspaper in the world.

I think he meant sending the password to the key over the net (in order to
verify ownership).





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