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Re: Yahoo releases internet standard draft for using DNS as public key server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Wed May 26 09:05:24 2004
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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:49:39 -0400
From: Adam Fields <fields@aquick.org>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: e$@vmeng.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:07:43AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
[...]
> yahoo draft internet standard for using DNS as a public key server
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-delany-domainkeys-base-00.txt
This sounds quite a lot like the ideas outlined in a paper I
co-authored in 1995, proposing the idea of a "trustmaster" for each
domain, keyed to the DNA hierarchy.
http://www.hedge.net/fields/projects/trust/trust.pdf
http://www.hedge.net/fields/projects/trust/trustfig.pdf
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