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Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue Dec 15 23:50:28 1998
Date: 16 Dec 1998 02:50:26 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <006501be2884$83453ea0$88004bca@home>
Enzo Michelangeli writes:
> JYA and others,
>
> The first Hong Kong free crypto archive is up and running at:
>
> ftp://ftp.futuredynamics.com/freecrypto/
>
> At the moment I'm just mirroring ftp.pgpi.com (about 119 Mb). More
> stuff will be hopefully added later. Also, I hope to announce more
> sites soon.
Here's a suggestion I don't have time to implement (ideas are cheap):
Create a system of mirrors where files cannot be removed, only
repudiated. Have a single piece of software which is 1) distributed
in the archive, and 2) when installed, creates and publishes a local
archive. This piece of software checks other archives, and
incorporates content from those archives.
This kind of archive has a problem akin to the key distribution
problem (call it the archive anti-distribution problem). How do you
keep people from wantonly adding things to the archive?
Perhaps an archive would have a list of signatures for which it is an
archive?
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