Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Mon Jan 1 06:49:41 PST 2001
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Van Donald wrote:
> A chat program needs a server, or interacting network of servers to
> advertise presence.
No, they don't. They do need a persistent network presence however.
Distinctly different things.
> This server could also act as a public key server,
Which is pointless. The only(!) group that is excluded from IRC at this
point is anyone who doesn't have the brains to request a session key
through the server.
> invisibly to user, guaranteeing stability of identity -- that this presence
> was the same entity as had been logged on under the same name in previous
> sessions.
Using pk's doesn't do this since I can loan my key as easy as I might own
a password. Besides how do you know somebody isn't diddling with the
central server?
Any centralized system is bound to be defeated through a 'least effort'
attack on the servers. As a result of the server going down the entire
system has now been breached and the trust in the operators is nil.
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