From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 27 11:39:17 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA03512 for security-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:39:17 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03487; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:39:04 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA15897; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:38:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:38:08 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502271938.AA15897@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: security@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: key exchange for rlogin/telnet services? In-Reply-To: <199502261913.LAA29658@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199502261913.LAA29658@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: security-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I'll try: "Diffie-Hellman key exchange." Apparently you start out with > a key pair on each end and then each raise eacy to the power of the other's > public half and used the information derived to secure the link. > Do any of you security weenies out there know what I'm talking about? > Am I making any sense? Should I be locked up by the NSA for even suggesting > this? Well, you wouldn't get locked up by NSA, but you might get your @$$ sued off by Public Key Partners. I'm not sure who owns the Diffie-Hellman patent (which expires in a few years), but the rights are controlled by PKP, which jealously guards its patent portfolio. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant