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Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zooko)
Wed Jul 16 12:03:06 2003
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Date: 16 Jul 2003 11:58:15 -0400
From: "Zooko" <zooko@zooko.com>
To: "Ed Gerck" <egerck@nma.com>
Cc: "Mark S. Miller" <markm@caplet.com>,
"Ben Laurie" <ben@algroup.co.uk>, "Tyler Close" <tyler@waterken.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Message from Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
of "Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:48:00 PDT." <3F1573B0.5CFDA69E@nma.com>
Ed Gerck wrote:
>
> IF Alice is trusted by Bob to introduce ONLY authentic parties, yes. And that is the
> problem.
Cryptography can't prevent Alice from telling lies about the web page that she
showing to Bob. But it can prevent that Bob sees a page different than the
one that Alice meant for him to see.
Regards,
Zooko
http://zooko.com/
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