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0 points_red12y ago0 comments

Correct, I can't see the practical use of this.

If Alice and Bob must have a secure method to jointly compute K(A) ⊕ K(B), then why wouldn't then use that same method to just exchange the data?

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dsr_12y ago

At the time of their key-exchange meeting, they don't know what messages they will want to exchange later.

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0 points_red12y ago0 comments

Correct, I can't see the practical use of this.

If Alice and Bob must have a secure method to jointly compute K(A) ⊕ K(B), then why wouldn't then use that same method to just exchange the data?

dsr_12y ago

At the time of their key-exchange meeting, they don't know what messages they will want to exchange later.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse