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Re: TCPA not virtualizable during ownership change

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Aug 16 11:59:28 2002

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:10:45 -0700
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <1e00f837f981a7b306e92744e165af93@aarg.net>
To: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com

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On 15 Aug 2002 at 15:26, AARG! Anonymous wrote:
> Basically I agree with Adam's analysis.  At this point I 
> think he understands the spec equally as well as I do.  He 
> has a good point about the Privacy CA key being another 
> security weakness that could break the whole system.  It 
> would be good to consider how exactly that problem could be 
> eliminated using more sophisticated crypto.

Lucky claims to have pointed this out two years ago, proposed 
more sophisticated crypto, and received a hostile reception.

Which leads me to suspect that the capability of the powerful 
to break the system is a designed in feature.  

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         James A. Donald
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