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Re: Seth Schoen's Hard to Verify Signatures

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wagner)
Fri Sep 10 11:09:09 2004

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From: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: hal@finney.org (Hal Finney)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <20040909063514.EB03D57E2B@finney.org> from "Hal Finney" at Sep 08, 2004 11:35:14 PM

> Hi, David - I had thought about that short-validity-proof but I don't
> believe it works.  It works for the signer but not for the verifier.

Ahh, yes, I see.  You're absolutely right.  I was too quick to jump
to conclusions, but your argument convinces me.  I withdraw my claim
about the verifier being able to convince others of the validity of
the signature -- sorry about that.  Thanks.

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