-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Tue Aug 06 20:53:31 1996 A couple of weeks ago Hal mentioned Ross Anderson's Eternity Service paper (URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk:80/users/rja14/#Lib). As Hal described it at the time:

The goal of the Eternity service is to make published information permanently and ineradicably available, despite efforts on the part of powerful attackers to destroy it. The attack model explicitly includes governments. This has obvious relevance to current controversies involving copyright, trade secrets, etc.

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Anderson's basic concept is of a network of storage servers in widely scattered jurisdictions. He uses cryptography so that although the servers store data, no single computer knows exactly what is stored in the encrypted files it holds. Keys to the data are spread across the network using secret sharing techniques, with mutual cooperation among the servers being necessary to decrypt files. (I believe the files themselves are redundantly stored on individual servers, but they are encrypted with keys which are split.) Anonymous communications are used among the network of computers to reply to requests, so that attackers can't tell which computer produced a requested document.

At the time I thought this sounds quite interesting and filed the information away for a time when I would have an opportunity to get the paper and read it. I finally created that opportunity recently only to find the paper at the above URL in a format I have a *lot* of difficulty reading. I'm a little embarrassed to ask such a thing, but does anyone know a location where this paper resides in plain-vanilla ASCII? Many thanks. AR #%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%#%# "The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton, Oct. 15, 1995 at the University of Connecticut. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Allen Robinson.........................sebago@earthlink.net PGP public key FE4A0A75 available from major keyservers fingerprint 170FBC1F7609B76F 967F1CC8FCA7A41F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgf3H3sdZ07+Sgp1AQHEYQP/cthh/U8MwguYjuDJkrMNScwCaLrBm+rv 7SJS5Oogln7ItVfMDCUGISVNABCg4gr4taqW8OnStmegZxqsYJevLu5qYVTPvdWG wPDbBu2rHfHc6aHS1am727Vv9EJTb452tlDkXQuQApH4TUh9mYUe6oIxVenKSxNC jbPGgzxgvvo= =qhoi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----