Protocols at the Point of a Gun

[Simon Spero]

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Christopher J. Shaulis wrote:
> 
> In the future, you will have to sign all packets (with a key
> conveniently available from verisign and noone else).

No - the company that will bring it to you: AT&T :)

Seriously - putting this sort of stuff at the IP layer is not doable; 
confidentiality and encryption, at least on a host-to-host basis is 
sensible (we know a protocol about that, don't we children)

Application AND user level authentication doesn't fit so well below the 
application level. 

Simon
p.s.

Am I the only one to find it really wierd that the Unabomber had a 
pen-pal? Guess they don't last long..

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