Re: How does this work?

From: Gelo Ilzi (geloilzi_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:29:43 +0200

The idea is relatively simple. Think how to authenticate public keys in DH.

"Justin Ding" <jstdingxp@msn.com> wrote in message
news:6014015c.0310210751.21803e86@posting.google.com...
> In "Network Security" by Charlie Kaufman, etc, they say, you can
> prevent man-in-middle attack to Diffie_hellman exchange by "Encrypt
> the Diffie_Hellman value with the other side's public key". But they
> didn't give any explaination.
>
> Does the method really work? How does it help? I would really
> appreciate it if someone can help me solve this puzzle.
>
> Justin

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