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Re: [Cfrg] Meeting notes

Johannes Merkle <johannes.merkle@secunet.com> Mon, 30 March 2015 09:56 UTC

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Derek Atkins schrieb am 27.03.2015 um 14:29:
> AE has a set of public parameters that you use to generate keypairs that
> can communicate (the equivalent of an ECC Curve or DH Prime).  The issue
> is that you need random data to generate those public parameters, and that
> random data needs to be kept secret.

What is the consequence if the random data becomes known, e.g., to an adversary?

Does this enable him to recover private keys?

And what does this imply for the level of trust that you need to have in the trusted third party?

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Johannes

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