On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible?
Yes, but there are caveats. > What I mean is, > Let's say some disgruntled and generic crypto-kook (let's call him, > say,...'Tyler Durden') has been signing his (tiring) cyber-missives with a > public key. > > And now let's say there's some guy at a party claiming to be that very same > Tyler Durden, but you're not so sure (this real-life Tyler Durden is WAY too > much of an obvious chick-magnet to be the same guy that posts on the > Internet). BUT, you happen to have your Palm Pilot(TM), and so does he. So > you both both engage the little hand-shaking app on your PP (using Tyler > Durden's public key) and there's verification. Yep. Same dude. No, not 'same dude'. Same key. -BIG- difference. > And for extra credit, when might the chipsets be available for incorporating > this functionality into, say, a wristwatch so that the protocol runs > automatically (giving you a beep, for instance, only if there's a mismatch)? > (This I'm sure the feds must already have.) FPGA, then of course if you're building digital watches you're going to use a proprietary chip and such. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------