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Re: validity time suggestion
At 3:57 PM 11/25/96 -0500, Carl Ellison wrote:
>An option for a certificate validity period could be "valid until event X
>occurs" (the example event used was the commit or abort of a transaction).
How do you determine when event X has occured? If you are in bed with the
transaction server (in the example), that would be easy. If you were not,
the only way I could see to honor the validity period would be to poll the
server everytime you wanted to use the certificate.
I note that Einsteinian notions of simultanity apply to this problem. I.e.
there will be cases where expiration and valid use can not be ordered.
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