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by jethroalias97
5009 days ago
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What you have described is more or less Diffie-Hellman. Unfortunately this alone wont guarantee your package's safe passage. If it did Verisign, would be out of a job. The flaw is, you can basically just have the same scenario but replace Alice with the post office: Bob puts the item in a box with a lock and sends to Alice. Post office intercepts the box, places their lock on it and sends it back to Bob. Bob removes his lock and sends the box back to Alice. Now the post office removes their lock and obtains the package contents. The only way around this is to have some truly trusted third party. Even in RSA, if you aren't absolutely certain of the other user's public key, it won't work, which is why web-of-trust and other techniques are used. |
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