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Re: validity time suggestion
At 05:43 PM 11/25/96 -0500, hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu wrote:
>
>Rather than specify a signature key it would be more effective in
>many situations to specify a residue from a one way function inside
>the certificate and use the value mapping to the residue to
>represent the event.
>
>This is similar to a suggestion by Silvio Micali.
Yes. Unfortunately, he has it patented. But, you're right that it's a
major improvement in performance and size.
>I think that there is scope for a wide range of "invalidation"
>and "trigger" type events, just as there is scope for a wide range of
>authorisation type configurations.
Yup.
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