distributed immutable namespace
Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa@nada.kth.se
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:06:19 +0100
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:16:15PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
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> There are two protocols involved:
>
> 1) Public Auditability - Use Merkle Authentication Trees
> [*] to prevent revisionism on the part of namespace
> servers. Namespace servers publish master hashes, users
> and namespace servers audit each others adherence to the
> global immutable root policy.
Sorry if I'm being stupid here, but what exactly is the tree
authenticating? It seems to me that MATs need to be static, which a
namespace would obviously not be.
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Oskar Sandberg
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