User talk:Hdrugge

July 2011
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Proposed deletion of Anonymous Key Technology


The article Anonymous Key Technology has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Authentication protocol based on symmetric-key cryptography "sold" as new technology. Poor and imprecise information, FIPS certification means nothing, no references, reads as blatant advertisement.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Nageh (talk) 20:26, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Anonymous key cryptography
Hi Hdrugge, first a welcome:

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There are many problems with your article: It does not describe a new concept in cryptography, but is merely based on symmetric-key cryptography, some key derivation, and probably some closed (tamper-resistant) hard design (as far as I understood based on your article). It talks about an "inherent" vulnerability of PKI but the described closed-loop system is much more inflexible, and not applicable for an open communications infrastructure like the Internet where you do not need to have ever met your communication partner (something only addressable by public-key cryptography). It mentions two functions f1 and f2, what seems like key derivation functions, but they do not take any shared secret. For authentication, something like a sealed authenticator is described, but the authenticator is a random(!) value, and the receiver is supposed to somehow discover whether decryption was successful or not despite he has no clue about the random value (and for decryption to fail additional redundancy would have to be added by the encryption algorithm, something symmetric-key algorithms usually do not do). I could go on with the technical details, but what is more important from the Wikipedia point of view is that the article provides no references at all and does not indicate why the protocol/technique is notable. Without any such indication your article will be deleted. Again, please read up on the three links I provided to you immediately above this paragraph. Hope this help, and all the best, Nageh (talk) 21:40, 28 July 2011 (UTC)