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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owner-cypherpunks@toad.com)
Thu Dec 22 13:25:36 1994
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:19:17 -0500
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On Thu, 22 Dec 1994 an169306@anon.penet.fi wrote:
> How can I insure a program, once put on FTP sites stays untampered with?
In the normal case the user wishes to know that the same person wrote,
or authorized version B as wrote version A, or that the person who produced
it , also wrote the information that led him to obtain it, or that
the version on site X is the same as the canonical version on
site A.
He really does not know or care what actual physical flesh and
blood person wrote it.
Thus in the normal case a simple digital signature, with no
authorization or proof for the public key, is ample.
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