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From: newton2@ucbtopaz.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: Re: Re: Eavesdropping revisited [How's that again?]
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 01:16:31 EST
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Keywords: Passing encryption keys

It astonishes me how often the brash assertiveness of a posting
scales inversely with the knowledge and authority of the poster.
Comes now Larry Lippman, who says cellular speech encryption
could never work because a huge database of key pairs would have
to include every possible user/transaction. And don't try passing
keys before each transaction-- he's thought of that!

Has he heard of Diffie and Hellman? Shamir, Rivest and Adleman?
Oh.... Never mind....

Doug Maisel