[Cryptography] Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat May 17 23:03:51 EDT 2014


On 2014-05-15 21:11, Jerry Leichter wrote:
 > Sharing a public key over a public channel is meaningful only if you
 > have a way to authenticate that it came from who you think it came
 > from.

What we need is a protocol for provably public assertions, where you
can be sure you are seeing the same document as everyone else sees,
and that the past cannot be rewritten.

Is there a name for this class of protocol?


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