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Master-Key Cryptosytems
- Published: Apr 05, 2002
- Updated: Apr 05, 2000
- Section: Network Security Library :: Cryptography
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- Company: Cambridge Protocols Workshop
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We initiate the study of a new class of secret-key cryptosystems, called master-key cryptosystems (MKCSs), in which an authorized third party (hereinafter called "the government," although it need not literally be one) possesses a "master key" that allows efficient recovery of the cleartext without knowledge of the session key.
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