Root and Branch Naming
Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa@nada.kth.se
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:59:01 +0100
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0800, hal@finney.org wrote:
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> A few comments on this. First, this is similar to the idea behind
> the Freenet Signature Verification (or Validation?) Key, SVK. It is
> essentially a hash of a public key which owns a document. I believe
> OceanStore also uses this mechanism.
Actually, I meant it as Signature Verifying Key (the key verifies that the
signature is valid) when I made up that acronym, but it seems next to
impossible to get people to stick to that (I think somebody passed a law
against present participle in TLDs without telling me).
Of course, the SVKs have been superseded by the keys that hash in a
document name with the key in the final step. It was actually quite silly
of me not to realize that that was a good idea from the beginning. Scott
called these "SSK" after SVK Subspace Keys (I believe), but I don't like
that name so I decided they are called Signed Subspace Keys.
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Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa@nada.kth.se