Olivier Nicole <olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > > What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole > > point was to enable secure communication, protected from both > > eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior > > trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret) ... > > I am not expert in cryptography ...
Nor am I > but logic tends to tell me that is I have no prior knowledge about > the person I am about to talk to, anybody (MIM) could pretend to > be that person. > > The pre-shared information need not to be secret ... but there is > need for pre-shared trusted information. Er, if the pre-shared information is not secret, how can I be sure that the person presenting it is in fact my intended correspondent and not a MIM? My impression is that Diffie-Hellman (somehow) solves this sort of problem. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"