On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com wrote:
The trend is for this to get worse, with
network-wide shared authentication via OpenID or whatever other standard
catches on.
Not to derail this, but OpenID is flexible enough to permit
fine-grained authentication as well
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
Dear Darren J Moffat:
I don't understand why you need a MAC when you already have the hash of
the ciphertext. Does it have something to do with the fact that the
checksum is non-cryptographic by default
(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ftyue?a=view ),
