Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bizarre authentication scheme
Message-ID: <1988Feb8.182754.26930@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: 10371664694678927135158569960683451164025292213568271978668183
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8802080327.AA02920@jiff>
Date: Mon, 8-Feb-88 18:27:51 EST

> In any subsequent article you wish to authenticate, you give a
> pointer to the previous article and the factorization...

This will break down immediately, since Usenet provides neither reliable
delivery nor reliable sequencing.
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Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry