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From: caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams)
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Subject: Re: Forgeries
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Date: 9 Feb 88 03:53:17 GMT
Reply-To: caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams)
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In article <8802080327.AA02920@jiff> gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU () writes:
>
> If anyone feels strongly enough about protection against
>forgeries, one system which does not involve any fixes by anyone
>but the user himself is to post a large number which is the
>product of two large enough (say, ~10^30) primes or pseudoprimes.

	A very good try.  But this method can have a vicious flaw.
What if the forger is the first one to post the number?  He can then
claim that the real user is the one posting all the forgeries.  And he
will have proof, if others believe in the method.

>   ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

	Please send replies by mail, as I don't often read this
newsgroup.

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