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RE: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Wed Jul 16 14:17:02 2003
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Michael_Heyman@NAI.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <8894CA1F87A5D411BD24009027EE783801EAE4A2@md-exchange1.na.nai.com>
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 Michael_Heyman@NAI.com wrote:
>A YURL aware search engine may find multiple independent references to a
>YURL, thus giving you parallel reporting channels, and increasing trust.
But any single search engine is itself a single reference, regardless
of how many times and contexts it uses to print the reference on the
page.
IOW, if you go to Mallory's search engine, then no matter how many
references you find, they're all coming to you through the same
channel and you have to trust Mallory.
Bear
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