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Re: Secrets & Lies, a comment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Sep 1 16:41:29 2000
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:20:17 -0700
To: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 04:45 PM 8/30/00 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote:
>about whether they work. So, understanding the mathematical
>properties of trust (trust not as an emotion but as something
>essentially communicable), how can trust can provide an answer
Hmm, the flow of trust.
There are no such things as holes, just missing electrons.
I wonder if its not trust, but anti-trust ('secret' information) that flows.
Each 'trusted' node must be a diode and you can ask what if it breaks
down.