I just got this message from NIST's Edward Roback. There seems to
be a possibility that the AES contest could be endangered by
claims of intellectual property rights on competing algorithms.
Unfortunately some of the stronger candidates seem to be the less
enlightened ones in
At 6:25 PM -0700 3/4/99, Anonymous wrote:
The basic problem is that chaumian credentials are transferable.
People who have no use for them will be able to sell them for a few
£s, and domain name speculators will be happy to buy them. Someone
who is willing to speculate $70 each on hundreds
The UK government have issued their consultation paper on electronic
commerce and cryptography at:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/elec/elec_com.html
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Bill proposes an alternative DNS system to allow third party
verification of server integrity, which I'll comment on below.
A meta-comment though, is that my earlier proposal (as well as Bill's
proposal) are essentially integrity verification functions on the
domain database. They don't
