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Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS key management, part 2: Tahoe-LAFS is like encrypted git
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn)
Wed Aug 19 15:53:07 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090819160520.GC13807@randombit.net>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:11:31 -0600
To: tahoe-dev@allmydata.org
On Wednesday,2009-08-19, at 10:05 , Jack Lloyd wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:28:45AM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>
>> [*] Linus Torvalds got the idea of a Cryptographic Hash Function
>> Directed Acyclic Graph structure from an earlier distributed
>> revision control tool named Monotone.
>
> OT trivia: The idea actually predates either monotone or git;
> opencm (http://opencm.org/docs.html) was using a similiar technique
> for VCS access control a year or two prior to monotone's first
> release.
Note that I didn't say Monotone invented it. :-) Graydon Hoare of
Monotone got the idea from a friend of his who, as far as we know,
came up with it independently. I personally got it from Eric Hughes
who came up with it independently. I think OpenCM got it from the
Xanadu project who came up with it independently. :-)
Regards,
Zooko
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