[ntp:questions] Re: Cryptography

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Wed Dec 10 07:19:57 UTC 2003


>What I'm proposing (and do not know how to implement) is a system
>where it does not matter if the intermediate system is a good guy or
>not.  This property is not self-contradictory -- for instance, if you
>receive PGP-signed e-mail, you do not need to know if the intermediate
>relays that delivered the e-mail to you are trustworthy.

What if the intermediate relay tells you the time is 3 seconds later
than it really is.  It can pass an old S1 signed report if that will
make you trust it.

If I understand things, you have bracketed things on one side.  Now
we need another trick to get the other side.

-- 
The suespammers.org mail server is located in California.  So are all my
other mailboxes.  Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited
commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other addresses.
These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.




More information about the questions mailing list