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- From: Peter Todd <retep AT penguinpowered.com>
- To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Naming via SDSI
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:37:55 -0500
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:09:25PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> My main issue with total subjectivity is that it requires that you pass
> around fat references (keys) all the time. So I can't tell someone "Check
> out megatokyo.com." I have to say "check out
> asjldkq9u4q8412093ajla0912l". It helps if you have a computer-mediated
> communication environment to do translation for you, but it sucks for
> voice and written. I know the last time I wrote down my PGP fingerprint I
> made to copying errors. If it was a different kind of key, such errors
^
We already make enough errors just writing normal text. :)
Whats so special about PGP figerprints BTW that allows them to
tolerate errors?
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Re: Naming via SDSI,
hal, 03/06/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Mark S. Miller, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Don Marti, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Don Marti, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Tony Kimball, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Peter Todd, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Mark S. Miller, 03/07/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/07/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/07/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/07/2001
- RE: Naming via SDSI, Lucas Gonze, 03/07/2001
- RE: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/07/2001
- RE: Naming via SDSI, Lucas Gonze, 03/07/2001
- RE: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/07/2001
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