Re: (LAST CALL) Re: Implicit server authentication: Proposed clarification

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost> writes:

> After:
> 
>    A key exchange method uses "explicit server authentication" if the
>    key exchange messages include a signature or other proof of the
>    server's authenticity.  A key exchange method uses "implicit server
>    authentication" if, in order to prove its autenticity, the server
>    also has to prove that it knows the shared secret K, by sending a
>    message and a corresponding MAC which the client can verify. [1]
                                                                  ^^^

This should be deleted. I referred to a footnote in my email, which
nobody has commented so far.

/Niels