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Re: the limits of crypto and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Jul 16 17:17:19 2005
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:47:20 -0700
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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At 06:56 AM 7/14/2005, Pat Farrell wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:43 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
> > > I think that by eliminating the need for a merchant to learn
> > > information about your identity ...
>...
>In all the discussion here, the thing that
>strikes me is that we need to stop using secrets
>as proof of anything. Seems that Chaum's
>credentials without identities are a much better
>approach, and I'd guess that his patents
>are long expired.
By now you've probably seen Lucky's party announcement,
but they actually expire next week.
17-year and 20-year patent lifetimes are *way* too long.
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