[43260] in Cypherpunks
Who needs time vaults anyway?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.Back@exeter.ac.uk)
Sat Nov 11 09:23:40 1995
From: A.Back@exeter.ac.uk
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 22:17:31 GMT
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: sameer's message of Sat, 11 Nov 1995 00:43:11 -0800 (PST) <199511110843.AAA18344@infinity.c2.org>
> > Can anyone explain what use this theoretical "time-sensitive" crypto
> > box would be good for?
>
> Suppose you die.
Suppose you get "silenced", or carted off by big brother for thought
crime. A defense: if you try to silence me, this info gets plastered
all over the net.
Suppose you discovered a polynomial time factoring algorithm (dream
on:-), and wanted to sell it to the highest bidder - what odds that
the NSA would try to obtain it and silence you? Time-release would be
useful for such things.
Adam
