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Re: New Technology to Make Digital Data Disappear, on Purpose
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Tue Jul 21 22:45:48 2009
From: dan@geer.org
To: "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:20:32 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:45:07 -0400
> The pieces of the key, small numbers, tend to =93erode=94 over time as
> they gradually fall out of use. To make keys erode, or timeout, Vanish
> takes advantage of the structure of a peer-to-peer file system. Such
> networks are based on millions of personal computers whose Internet
> addresses change as they come and go from the network.
One would imagine that as IPv6 rolls out, the need
for DHCP goes to zero excepting for mobile devices
attaching to public (not carrier) nets. Yes?
--dan
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