Re: Some Sums

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () mitre org>]

>   I take it that's going to be the hash of some file or other data
>   you're > going to produce for someone at sometime in the future?
>   Couldn't you just > have used a ZK protocol and left us all out of
>   it? ;-) If you're going to use > our inboxes as substitutes for
>   escrow/notarisation centres, you could perhaps > tell us just a
>   little bit more about what you're doing!

MD5/SHA-1 crackability issues aside*, the next question that
immediately comes to mind is why there isn't a central place for
researchers to do exactly this - make a claim about knowledge that's
provably fixed in a certain place and time.  Oh, wait, we're all
individuals and we don't need anybody else.  There's no need to
organize in any way, shape, or form.  After all, when Ilfak posted
that third-party patch, ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY knew who he was and
immediately trusted him, so why not Halvar?  Sorry, I forgot about the
outside world for a second.


Snarkily and respectfully,
Steve


* crypto is my kryptonite, I defer to the geniuses.
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