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Presented in this paper is a recursive public key distribution mechanism which utilizes a fixed size public key generator to build systems with arbitrarily large cryptocomplexity when block encryption is performed by some key driven device such as DES. The technique provides both an encryption and authentication mechanism and is ideally suited to link encryption applications where there exist only fixed length public key generators.
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Fam, B.W. (1984). Improving the Security of Exponential Key Exchange. In: Chaum, D. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4730-9_25
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