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Re: A problem with public key encrption in IKE
Yes, my memory did not serve me well.
My apology to Dan, Hugo and Ran.
Pau-Chen
> From owner-ipsec@lists.tislabs.com Wed Dec 15 05:21:35 1999
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:53:38 +0200 (IST)
> From: Hugo Krawczyk <hugo@ee.technion.ac.il>
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> Pau,
>
> > Having two forms of public key encryption modes came from some
> > miscommunication we (I, Hugo and Ran) had with Dan.
>
> these two modes are NOT the result of miscommunication with Dan.
> The original mode was taken by Dan from the Oakley draft
> which was Hilarie's implementation of the PK encryption
> mode of SKEME.
>
> The revised mode is more in line with what I had in mind when
> designing SKEME. Especially, the fact that it uses a single costly
> encryption-decryption operation at each party rather than two.
>
> Hugo
>