The Elevator Problem
Bryan L Andrews
Bryan_L_Andrews at ccm.fm.intel.com
Sat Jun 15 06:54:18 PDT 1996
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Rob wrote:
>This may be old hat, but an earlier post (around the time the Kocher
>RSA-timing attack came out) to the list asked about the "Elevator
>Problem", where two parties who think they share the same secret want
>to confirm it on an open channel. I came up with an idea for a
>protocol but never got around to posting it, and dropped off the list
>briefly... so pardon me if this is already touched upon.
............
>Comments?
This reminds me of the discussions I've seen over the last few months regarding
oblivious transfers/zero-based transactions. Good article in Scientific
American on it a few months ago.
Bryan.
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