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- From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
- Subject: Re: announcing the alt.cabal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182535.12313@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <VIXIE.93Jan24142358@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:25:35 GMT
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- But Paul, what is to stop the newgroupies from forging
- alt.cabal control messages? They have been forging articles
- from Jef Poskanzar for months...
-
- What we really need is a public-key encryption scheme:
- - tale, vixie, et al post encrypted date-stamped control messages
- - participating dealers automatically decrypt the messages and
- repost them with "local" distribution
- - participating dealers acknowledge control messages only from
- the people they trust.
-
- No, I'm not volunteering to write the software. The last
- time I tried to do that... oh well, that's another story.
-
- --Jamie.
- jamie@cs.sfu.ca
-