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Re: public key transfer problem.

To: Oktay Adalier <oadalier@yunus.mam.gov.tr>
Subject: Re: public key transfer problem.
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:32:09 -0500 (EST)
cc: ipsec@tis.com
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>   In the RFC-2409 (the IKE RFC) in section 5.2 (phasa 1 Authenticated with
> Public Key Encryption) it is said that " in order to perform the public
> key encryption, the initiator must already have the responder's public
> key."
> 
> My quastion is : How one can have the responder's (or vise versa; 
> initiators) public key.

Perhaps by prearrangement, e.g. transferring it by FTP.  Perhaps by
getting it from a KEY record in a DNS entry (see RFC 2065).  Perhaps by
talking to a key server of some other kind. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)

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From: Oktay Adalier <oadalier@yunus.mam.gov.tr>

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