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- From: Marc.Ringuette@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu
- Subject: Secure network: what form?
- Message-ID: <9208272105.AA12700@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:37:00 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- I presume we all agree that we should move towards some form of secure
- email and some means of exchanging public keys. There are a number of
- other cryptographic services we could ask for. I presume we do NOT all
- agree on exactly what form they should take.
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- How do you think we should take advantage of cryptography in the next
- generation network? What tools would you use? What organization? Is
- there anything you want particularly to avoid? I think it's important
- for us to develop a more accurate vision of what it is that we want.
- Otherwise, how will people know what to implement for us?
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- A laundry list of the stuff I think would be useful:
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- Basic tools: RSA, DES, MD5
- Basic services: secure mail, digital signatures, key distribution
- Additional services: untraceable mail, anonymous mail/posting,
- untraceable electronic cash, electronic contracts with legal standing,
- secure posting of announcements that are guaranteed to be seen by
- either everyone or no one, cryptographic voting
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- I think it's also important that workstations become more secure, via
- digital fingerprinting of files on disk and better encapsulation and
- division between trusted and non-trusted software.
-
- What is your vision of what we should be striving for?
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- [ Marc Ringuette | Cranberry Melon University, Cucumber Science Department ]
- [ mnr@cs.cmu.edu | 412-268-3728 | ".surivorter erutangis a ma I" ]
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