Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!ames!oliveb!pyramid!thirdi!peter From: peter@thirdi.UUCP (Peter Rowell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: authentication without public keys Message-ID: <441@thirdi.UUCP> Date: 20 Nov 88 22:57:42 GMT References: <17595@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: peter@thirdi.UUCP (Peter Rowell) Organization: Third Eye Software, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 24 For those interested in a paper on the subject, I heartily recommend the following: Communications of the ACM December, 1978 Volume 21, Number 12 Pages 993-999 "Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers." Roger M. Needham and (Now at Cambridge (?)) Michael D. Schroeder (Now at DEC (?)) Xerox PARC The paper is clear and succinct. It discusses the establishment of secure communications using either public key or private key methods. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Rowell Third Eye Software, Inc. (415) 321-0967 Menlo Park, CA 94025 peter@thirdi.UUCP