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To: Joggins who wrote (55)9/14/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: Enam Luf  Read Replies (1) of 206
 
Joggins and Calypso,

Both of you make some interesting points. While my understanding of the technology is more along the line of what Calypso describes, I think Joggins raises an interesting point.

From what I've read, I believe that private key encryption, properly implemented, is actually the more secure method of transmission (hence the govt's reliance upon DES). However, in a distributed network environment such as the Internet, where the number of possible communication points are so large, the problem in implementing a symmetric (private) key system is in the management of those keys. As both parties involved in a transaction must share the private key to decode the message, trying to safely implement such a system over the public Internet would seem a daunting task. Public key was created primarlily to address this issue of key management.

Enam
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