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- From: djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Second cousin to a spoof proof
- Message-ID: <12270.Jan2521.02.2993@silverton.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:02:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.170802.15444@bernina.ethz.ch> <C12I97.G3o@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <C13L7D.1M7@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <C13L7D.1M7@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- > At the moment, I can't think how to define the problem precisely enough
- > to prove that spoofing is impossible.
-
- Assume there is an automorphism of the universe which switches Bob and
- Charlie. Then no matter what Alice does, she can't tell the difference
- between Bob and Charlie. More precisely, Alice cannot define the
- function which is 1 for Bob and 0 for Charlie, because this function
- is not invariant under the automorphism.
-
- In practice, for this automorphism to exist, Bob and Charlie have to
- start with all the same information, receive all the same information,
- and be in a position to send all the same information.
-
- ---Dan
-