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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1993
Charles W Kaufman, Northborough, MA (US);
Radia J Perlman, Acton, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corp., Patent Law Group, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
An encryption system employing a one-time key-pad uses a shared secret number and a one-way hash function with which both the originator and recipient of a message generate successive segments of a key-pad to encrypt and decrypt the message respectively. In one arrangement each key-pad segment is generated by applying the hash function to a combination of the secret number and the previous key-pad segment. In the other embodiment of the invention, each key-pad section is generated by applying the one-way hash function to a combination of the secret number and a corresponding segment of the ciphertext version of the message.