From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 06:40:30 +0800
To: Laurence Lundblade <lgl@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: A brief comparison of email encryption protocols
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At 12:01 2/29/96, Laurence Lundblade wrote:
>I think a problem occurs when you have 20 billion of
>these certs (two for every person in the year 2010 or such).  A simple hash
>into a table isn't going to cut it because you a single database (with
>replication?) isn't going to be possible.

BTW, at the rate that memory gets cheaper and smaller, it might be quite
reasonable to have that single database fit alongside your daily appointments
in your shirt-pocket daily organizer and e-mail terminal, in 2010.


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