On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:48:23AM -0700, Scott Miller wrote:
> The algorithm has about the same performance as ElGamal (2 modexps for
> encrypt, 1 to decrypt), but provides much stronger security guarantees.
> In addition, the algorithm involves a keyed message authentication code,
> for which we'll be using HMAC.  The mac lets Bob know if the encrypted
> quantity will actually decrypt to valid data and not gibberish.  For
> this reason, we would be able to eliminate the 0x00000000 we encrypt at
> the beginning of a restart request, which would eliminate a possible
> partial known-plaintext attack.  
> 
> Comments?

% wc -l elgamal.cc
  60 elgamal.cc

Sure, go replace it.

AGL

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