Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

2003-07-15 Thread Ben Laurie
Ed Gerck wrote: From your URLs: The browser verifies that the fingerprint in the URL matches the public key provided by the visited site. Certificates and Certificate Authorities are unnecessary. Spoofing? Man-in-the-middle? Revocation? Also, in general, we find that one reference

Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

2003-07-15 Thread Zooko
Tyler should probably reference SFS on his HTTPSY pages. Here's a good paper focussed specifically on this issue. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/mazieres99separating.html 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

Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

2003-07-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
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

Re: Information-Theoretic Analysis of Information Hiding

2003-07-15 Thread David Honig
At 12:30 AM 7/15/03 -0400, Don Davis wrote: An electrical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has devised a theory that sets the limits for the amount of data that can be hidden in a system and then provides guidelines for how to store data and decode it. Contrarily, the theory

Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

2003-07-15 Thread Ed Gerck
Ben Laurie wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: Also, in general, we find that one reference is not enough to induce trust. Self-references cannot induce trust, either (Trust me!). Thus, it is misleading to let the introducer determine the message target, in what you call the y-property. Spoofing