Re: I-D ACTION:draft-schaad-dhsign-00.txt
EKR <ekr@rtfm.com> Sat, 14 November 1998 01:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-schaad-dhsign-00.txt
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From: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:46:39 -0800
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"Jim Schaad (Exchange)" <jimsch@exchange.microsoft.com> writes: > This draft is referenced from the new CMC draft so it should be of interest > to the readers of that draft. Jim, First, a meta-comment: Why do we need this at all? DH keys are suitable for computing DSA signatures. Wouldn't it be simpler just to compute a DSA signature over the data? This would eliminate the need for a common group between the sender and recipient. Secondly, I don't believe that the ephemeral scheme is strong. Provided that the attacker has access to the triplet g,p,Ys (sender's public key), it's trivial for him to compute a private key Xe such that he knows: Ye^Xe = g^(XsXe) This allows him to forge any number of signed messages Remember, computing the DH shared secret requires access to only one of the DH private keys. I hesitate to bring this up because I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious, but I sure can't see what it is. Confused, -Ekr -- [Eric Rescorla ekr@rtfm.com]
- I-D ACTION:draft-schaad-dhsign-00.txt Jim Schaad (Exchange)
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