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Re: a crypto puzzle about digital signatures and future compatibility

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Salz)
Wed Aug 26 18:28:00 2009

In-Reply-To: <BAF59139-1846-4080-B305-4C496789E48E@zooko.com>
To: "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn" <zooko@zooko.com>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
        owner-cryptography@metzdowd.com, tahoe-dev@allmydata.org
From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:52:46 -0400

> This at least suggests that the v1.7 readers need to check *all* 
> hashes that are offered and raise an alarm if some verify and others 
> don't.  Is that good enough?

Isn't that what SSL/TLS does?

        /r$

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