[144938] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Trusted timestamping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fearghas McKay)
Mon Oct 5 23:00:08 2009
Cc: Alex Pankratov <ap@poneyhot.org>,
Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Fearghas McKay <fm-lists@st-kilda.org>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ACA0B06.1040804@systemics.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:57:39 +0100
On 5 Oct 2009, at 16:04, Ian G wrote:
> My view is that there is no demand for this as a service. The
> apparent need for it is more a paper requirement that came out of
> PKI world's search for a perfect product than any business need.
>
> E.g., if you think you want it, you might be better rewarded by re-
> examining your assumptions as to why it is needed, than building it...
http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm
Has been around since ~1995 and just works whenever I have used it,
albeit some time ago. It publishes time stamp info on Usenet,
comp.security.pgp.announce which shows the last activity was in 2002...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.pgp.announce/browse_thread/thread/d25667d87c1740f6#
Which seems to support your viewpoint.
f
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