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From: "' =JeffH '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Cc: "' =JeffH '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:53 PM
Subject: questions on RFC2631 and DH key agreement
(ya and yb) if { p, q, g, j } are known to both parties.
So if p, q, g are not static, then a simplistic, nominally valid, DH
profile
would be to..
a b
---------- ----------
g, p, ya ------------------------------------>
<--------------------------------------- yb
..yes?
I would actually recommend sending all the public data. This does not take
significant additional space and allows more verification to be performed. I
would also suggest looking at what exactly the goal is. As written this
provides no authentication just privacy, and if b uses the same private key
to generate multiple yb the value of b will slowly leak.
Other than for b perhaps wanting to verify the correctness of { p, q, g,
j }
("group parameter validation"), is there any reason to send q ?
You can then use the gpb trio for DSA, leveraging the key set for more
capabilities.
Joe
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