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Re: Payments as an answer to spam (addenda)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Sat May 17 21:12:04 2003
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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 19:17:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> OCSP is actually a more timely version of the paper booklets
> that were distributed in the 50s & 60s .... not an actual switch from a
> basically offline paradigm to an online paradigm.
Curious.
A couple of years ago, we'd go around explaining that CRL's were the
paper booklets, and OCSP was the Verifone terminal, giving per-transactional
validity to the credentials.
I still think that makes more sense than your analogy. But then, the
company I was working for back then is now gone.
/r$
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Rich Salz Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
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