-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 8 Jul 1996 janke@unixg.ubc.ca wrote:
Thank you for the comments, but I'm not sure I fully understand them all. First of all what is a TLA? Second of all, and this seems to be
A TLA is a Three Letter Acronym. Such examples would be FBI, NSA, DEA, and CIA.
I hadn't thought of using a ring topology... Interesting. I'll think about that one some more.
The ring topology is definitely more secure. A DC-Net has to have at least three hosts to be of any use. When a centralized server is used, the security is basically lost.
How do hash trees help? Is that mentioned in the paper you cite? I'll take a look at that one before long. What's the title and author?
Hash trees help by preventing collisions while preserving anonymity. The property of hash trees is that it takes log 2(N) number of elements of the tree to verify where N is the total number of elements in the tree. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." --George Orwell, _1984_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMeHwUrZc+sv5siulAQG9SAQAm7vPPFGjM/x0ntXTk9SZhNZ98WoRzHDT 6o1r+iWdZPBx1loAb8AGq+i8OumSrdDvVfdjGCDOp5smlFwJH/jSUBDHyi2Fkwp9 duzvukxHgazX7CQY9p585UX+y6Uu1d/Dfj74DzIIbyPBIwJNW9qzbAbUGQqXM1zR zzuVA7RxPWI= =qNZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----