Generating the Conversation Key

When the user initiates a transaction with a server, the following occurs:

1. The keyserver randomly generates a conversation key.

2. The kernel uses the conversation key to encrypt the client's time stamp (among other things).

3. The keyserver looks up the server's public key in the public key database (see the publickey(4) man page).

4. The keyserver uses the client's secret key and the server's public key to create a common key.

5. The keyserver encrypts the conversation key with the common key.