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Manual wording tweaks.
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Carl Hetherington
<cth@carlh.net>
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:50:20 +0000
(09:50 +0100)
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Carl Hetherington
<cth@carlh.net>
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:50:20 +0000
(09:50 +0100)
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-1560,8
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methods to understand it.
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
-We suppose that we are trying to
distribute a DCP,
to
-Alice's cinema
,
without a troublemaker called Mallory being able to
+We suppose that we are trying to
send a DCP
to
+Alice's cinema without a troublemaker called Mallory being able to
watch it himself.
</para>
watch it himself.
</para>
@@
-1588,11
+1588,12
@@
happened to know Mallory, she could just send him a copy of the key.
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
-The clever bit in
DCP encryption
requires the use of public-key
+The clever bit in
the process
requires the use of public-key
encryption. With this technique we can encrypt a block of data using
some ‘public’ key. That data can then only be decrypted
encryption. With this technique we can encrypt a block of data using
some ‘public’ key. That data can then only be decrypted
-using a <emphasis>different</emphasis> ‘private’ key. The
-private and public keys are related mathematically, but it is
+using a corresponding private key which is
+<emphasis>different</emphasis> to the public key. The private and
+public keys form a pair which are related mathematically, but it is
extremely hard (or rather, virtually impossible) to derive the private
key from the public key.
</para>
extremely hard (or rather, virtually impossible) to derive the private
key from the public key.
</para>