[sci.crypt] VAX/VMS one way encryption: The Purdite Polynomial

cjs@oberlin.UUCP (chris seline) (03/15/88)

One way encryption on VMS is done using the Purdite Polynomial.

Does anyone know anything about it?


Chris Seline
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mbr@beta.UUCP (Mike Rose) (03/18/88)

In article <705@oberlin.UUCP> cjs@oberlin.UUCP (chris seline) writes:
>One way encryption on VMS is done using the Purdite Polynomial.
>Does anyone know anything about it?
>Chris Seline

See Communications of the ACM, Aug 1974, "A High Security
Log-in Procedure", by George B. Purdy.

Mike Rose
mbr@lanl.gov