Re: [cryptography] storage systems as one-way protocols

[adding Cc: tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org to a thread originated on cryptography@randombit.net: http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2010-October/000189.html ] On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > I don't know if anyone else noticed this but... I think it is mentioned briefly in "Cry

Re: [cryptography] storage systems as one-way protocols

On 10/05/2010 02:04 PM, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: I don't know if anyone else noticed this but... Storage systems are basically a subclass of protocols; they're unidirectional (with no acknowledgements). IOW, you're sending messages to yourself at some (future) point in

[cryptography] storage systems as one-way protocols

I don't know if anyone else noticed this but... Storage systems are basically a subclass of protocols; they're unidirectional (with no acknowledgements). IOW, you're sending messages to yourself at some (future) point in space-time. The recipient cannot respond, so is necessarily unauthenticated