[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]
28869: RE: [MUD-Dev] Trusting the client, encrypting data
[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: "Richard A. Bartle" <richard@mud.co.uk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:12:40 -0000
References: [1]
Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 18th December, 2003, Peter Harkins wrote:
> Then when they need to know the data you can just send the key
> (hopefully small) instead of the data (a larger amount of data),
> reducing some delays.
Ah, now that IS a more interesting take on the usual use of
encryption. I'm not sure it's particularly useful, but it's
certainly not as insecure as I first thought.
I withdraw my earlier objection to it.
Richard
_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev@kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev