Dam spell checker. cancel = cancer
> > there is no way the network > > can determine the validity of the data that was entered in the first place > > Although it will be a pain for the user. How about having multiple > (random) nodes verify the data with each of them appending the signature > to the information. Since replying to email is not a lot of trouble you > could require say a dozen nodes send email to the user and verify that the > email address is indeed valid. It would be difficult for all of them to > be cancel nodes. Heck you can even make it larger then that. Replying to > all those emails will be a pain but it will only have to be done once. > > If cancel nodes can be identified some way and one of the nodes > verifying the information is a cancel node the information should be > thrown out. > > Then there is the actual security of the email address is question. But > since the mail will be coming from so many different directions an > attacker would really have to compromise the mail server.... -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
