"Zooko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although I haven't looked closely at HTTPSY yet, I'm pretty sure that it > simply applies to the Web the same notion that SFS applies to remote > filesystems. > > It is an excellent idea.
SFS makes it practically impossible to do key updates, and the trust model is rather flawed -- if you mount files from one site you in practice end up trusting it totally, which means that it can hand you links to spoofed other sites and you'll in practice totally believe them unless you're paying very close attention and have the ability to perfectly recognize long hashes by eye. It is a neat idea, and certainly instructive, but I don't know that I particularly love it. The "YURL" idea seems to suffer from most of the same flaws. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
