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No Authentication.

mRSA does not require any explicit authentication between a SEM and a user. Instead, a user implicitly authenticates a SEM by verifying its own signature (or encryption) as described in Section 2.1. In fact, signature and encryption verification steps assure the user of the integrity of the communication with the SEM.



Gene Tsudik
2001-05-10