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Re: Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Wed Sep 10 11:10:27 2003
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:38:02 -0600
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 08:14 AM 9/10/2003 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>entry. We ran into a problem with doing consistent database updates over
>NFS (network filesystem) because while NFS advertises itself as item
>potent, most client implementations have this 8k cache that can be stale.
fingers typing w/o brain syncronized ... it should have been idempotent not
item potent.
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Internet trivia 20th anv http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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