Re: Trusted timestamping

2009-10-07 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Fearghas McKay : > http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm > > Has been around since ~1995 and just works whenever I have used it, > albeit some time ago. It publishes time stamp info on Usenet, > comp.security.pgp.announce which shows the last activity was in > 2002... > > http://groups.google

Trusted Time Stamping

2009-10-07 Thread Paul F. Doyle
If I may contribute a perspective to this discussion... The issue of Trusted Time Stamping can be broken down into two main points: 1.) Why might trusted timestamping be important/useful; and, 2.) How can one do itreliably, scalability and securely (considering the need for a forward-secure

RE: Trusted timestamping

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Pankratov
> -Original Message- > From: pgut001 [mailto:pgut...@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz] > On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann > Sent: October 5, 2009 10:07 PM > To: a...@poneyhot.org; cryptography@metzdowd.com > Subject: Re: Trusted timestamping > > "Alex Pankratov" writes: > > >I have spent a c

Hal Finney: Dying Outside

2009-10-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Less Wrong Dying Outside 59 HalFinney 05 October 2009 02:45AM A man goes in to see his doctor, and after some tests, the doctor says, "I'm sorry, but you have a fatal disease." Man: "That's terrible! How long have I got?" Doctor: "Ten." Man: "Ten

Re: Trusted timestamping

2009-10-07 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 6 Oct 2009, at 14:48, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: As explained at http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper/stampnew.htm they moved to alt.security.pgp in 2002. But ... the latest timestamp summary I can see there is from May 2009, so I guess the point stands, unless it's just google groups that won