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Re: [TLS] User Defined Key Pair

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 24 June 2013 15:30 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "OMAR HASSAN (RIT Student)" <omh1835@rit.edu>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:29:59 -0400
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I didn't see any description of your genKeyPair function; is it described anywhere?  In particular, it seems to me that it's stateless - that is, it generates the keypair whenever needed, based only on the username, password, and a security question&answer.  Is that true?
                /r$

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