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Re: [Cryptography] On Security Architecture, The Panopticon,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Dec 25 22:01:38 2013

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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:59:41 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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The old Skype system was user friendly and offered end to end 
encryption, except that the central authority could easily mim someone, 
and except that it was a closed source implementation of a closed source 
protocol, thus could be quietly changed without telling anyone.

And, of course, was quietly changed without telling anyone.

Solution to mim by central authority: some kind of distributed, append 
only, database, such that if the central authority mims someone, it 
faces a significant risk of detection.

However, distributed append only data base not quite as easy as it sounds.
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