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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ISP filtering - update
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:14:13 +0200
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> SMTP mostly comes from providers (ISP's) and not your friends (unless
> your friends happen to own ISP's).

yup, i'm thinking about a clever auth method based on a cryptographic hash:

    - 'public key' is some random string
    - shared secret is a shared string
    - cat the two and hash them

i need to think about this more.

i don't care about encryption.  i want authentication [ZKP]. reading
_network security_ i see the example is based on transforms on large
graphs.

the public key is a list of large [500 node] graphs while the private key
is the transform between randomly chosen graphs and an isomorphic
graph.  as the doc says 'this is impracticle'.

then i started to think about graphs.  now, what is the web?

this is all probably flawed, but i haven't given up yet.  buddy, can you
spare a neuron?