Rarity: Crypto question enclosed

[Dave Kinchlea]

Sounds a little like Hesiod to me.

cheers

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:

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> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Date: Sun Nov 10 15:03:35 1996
> Sorry that this message doesn't include any flames, "outings", 
> denigrations, or other stuff......
> 
> My simple question is regarding key/certificate distribution:
> 
>         Is there any particular reason that such can't be accomplished via 
> on-line lists, and made available via a service on a port, using standard 
> (textual) commands, like mail and such are now?
> 
>         The things that come to mind are a 'client' request for a key, a 
> 'client' submission of a key, an external host requesting a key exchange, 
> and the host itself requesting a key exchange with another system (only 
> new/changed keys being swapped).
> 
>         The way I see it working is similar to (but not as slow as, or 
> requiring the human intervention) of the key servers already existing. 
> Granted that the first few such servers might carry a higher load, but I'd 
> think that would taper off as the (presumably free) software became 
> available, similar to the growth of remailer software (which would seem to 
> be a fairly reasonable relationship....).
> 
>         Hooks into existing PGP-fluent software shouldn't be difficult with 
> a standardized protocol, and I wouldn't think that the servers would be 
> that difficult to code and implement on a 'standard' (consistently used, 
> that is) port.
> 
>         I'm willing to have a try at the first server, if the parameters 
> can be defined.
> 
> Dave Merriman
> 
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