CRAug 15, 2014

A Note on the Bellare-Rivest Protocol for Translucent Cryptography

arXiv:1408.3452v1
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This is an incremental critique pointing out a specific limitation in a cryptographic protocol, relevant for security and privacy applications.

The paper identifies a flaw in the Bellare-Rivest protocol for translucent cryptography, showing it fails to enable government decryption of partial encrypted communications as intended.

We remark that the Bellare-Rivest protocol for translucent cryptography [J. Cryptology (1999) 12: 117-139] can not truly enable the government to decrypt partial encrypted communications.

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