[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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