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Photuris-04
I have submitted an internet-draft incorporating many of Hilary and
Scott suggestions. Those which want an early copy can get it from
ftp.morningstar.com:pub/I-Net/photuris-04b.txt
I mostly just reorganized text sections, added a couple of definitions,
and Hilary's length versus strength text. Also, the various nits that
have been noticed so far are fixed.
I also changed the key calculations somewhat, appending the shared-key.
While there is no possibility of an appending attack, I figured, "what
the heck, it may be more secure against cryptanalysis in the case that
someday someone may figure out how to unroll MD5." Particularly as
those leading 1024-bit shared-secrets just happen to fall on a 512-bit
MD5 hash boundary.
And, as requested, I added a 2048-bit modulus. I'm still waiting for a
stronger elliptic curve.
Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2
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