Summary for Week 7
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Lecture 11: We covered the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). We also discussed
a one-time password scheme by Leslie Lamport (this construction used a mechanism called
hash chains). We covered a bit committment scheme based on the discrete log algorithm.
We started our discussion about Kerberos.
Date: Tu, 03/06/2007.
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Lecture 12: We finished discussion of Kerberos (until version 4). We started discussing
X.509.
Date: Th, 03/08/2007.