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RE: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:26:21 -0700
Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate authority.
Not really. You can just take random numbers. If you have enough bits (and a good RNG) the probability of collision would be less than probability of an asteroid wiping the life on Earth in the next year.
That doesn't help in this case. You need a way to verify ownership of an identifier. I don't want anyone else to be able to claim my identifier. Perhaps we can devise a scheme where I generate a random number and morph it into a 'private key'. Then I pass it through some algorithm to generate a 'public key' which is the identifier that I use. I then use the private key to prove my ownership of the public key. Nobody else can claim my public key because they don't know the corresponding private key. In fact, you could just use an RSA public key as the identifier directly. This is likely not the best algorithm, but it's certainly an existence proof that such algorithms can be devised without difficulty. In fact, I'm going to call my patent attorney instead of sending this email. ;) DS
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