----- Forwarded message from Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [24.90.211.177] From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Subject: Palm Pilot Handshake X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2003 01:54:34.0978 (UTC) FILETIME=3D[5F8AA420:01C2C739] Subject: Palm Pilot Handshake
Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? I'd like to be able digitally "shake hands" using a Palm Pilot. Is this possible? =2E.. ----- End forwarded message ----- While identity verification using handhelds seems to have some use, as has been pointed out, you're really just verifying that they have the same key. A far mroe exciting idea to me is how handhelds like palms, ipaqs, etc, could beused to transfer digital anonymous cash. They seem like perfect delivery vehicles. Say, secret agent X meets congressman Y in a dark alley somewhere to give him a lobbying donation of a million bucks, wouldn't it be great if X could just take out his handheld, point it at Y's handheld, tap a button on screen and transfer that million anonymously and securely? That would be much better than having to lug around a heavy briefcase full of hundred or thousand dollar bills! Does anyone think this is feasilbe? How could this be done? As handhelds become more ubiquitous, it seems that they have an exciting potential for making digital cash a real possibility. This method would also circumvent lots of attacks on digital cash that could be made when using it over an open transmission line. Also, does anyone know of any software for doing key signing with a palm? I'm going to be meeting some other debian developers soon, and we'll be doing some key signing, and it would be great if there was a decent palm app for transferring the keys instead of giving each other little slips of paper. michael -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Listening to: KPFA-FM - Berkeley, CA "Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is=20 good or bad or advantageous, but what is." - Allan Watts [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
