On Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:09:38 -0800 (PST), tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) said:
..... Tim> (Bob (Charles (Doris (Ed (........ (Zeke (final stuff))))....))) Tim> Envelopes within envelopes within envelopes. (Naturally we need better Tim> tools for doing this encapsulization, as manual efforts are too Tim> error-prone, besides being hideously boring.) ..... Tim> Well, enough for now. There could be some fatal flaws, but this is the Tim> direction I've been thinking about. Eric Messick and Hugh Daniel had Tim> some ideas about "onions" about a year ago, but I never fully grokked Tim> what their scheme was. If it was a scheme like this, and I have either Tim> duplicated their thinking or was subconsciously affected by it, I Tim> trust they'll let us all know. What you've got here is very similar, but you've added a very interesting slant to it. The cost of setting up a prepaid mailer (at least in terms of distributed compute power) appears to be pretty high, but the security you gain from it is likely to be worth it for certain applications. I'll have to spend some time studying this. Very interesting indeed... -eric messick