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Re: Some comments on JFK

To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
Subject: Re: Some comments on JFK
From: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:22:19 -0500
Cc: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>, ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Dec 2001 11:20:46 PST." <kjsnascdpt.fsf@romeo.rtfm.com>
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In message <kjsnascdpt.fsf@romeo.rtfm.com>, Eric Rescorla writes:
 >"Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
 >> Ambiguous language --- valid Initiators do perform computation before the
 >> Responder, and that was the observation.
 >Just out of curiousity, what benefit is this intended to provide?

None, it's just a side effect of the protocol. There is no cryptographic
significance in this, and the fact that the text said so at that particular
place was a mistake.
-Angelos

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Re: Some comments on JFK

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