Re: Encryption on the AS/400

thougth that's what we had Diffy-Helman for...



On 16 Oct 2001 thomas@inorbit.com wrote:

> On Tue, 16 October 2001, "Nathan M. Andelin" wrote:
>
> > No.  My intent was not to develop a message transport mechanism.  In message
> > transport, my understanding is that a public key is used to authenticate the
> > sender and a private key is used to decipher the message.
> >
> > My API was intended to encrypt and decipher data locally.
>
> Seems like a very limited market if transport isn't an issue. Reasonable 
>authority settings should be otherwise effective, unless encryption is 
>intended to block high-authority users. But a high-authority user quite 
>possibly can intercept any key when it's entered... unless you've implemented 
>some means that protects the key as it passes between the user and the 
>algorithm.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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