From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 92 17:15:26 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: another service
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Eric Hollander writes:

> I have thought of another service, like the depository, which might be
> useful to the user community:  a time stamping notary service.  This would
> have less security problems than the depository and would also be neccessary
> if RSA'ed documents are to replace contracts and other paper documents used
> in business.

Bellcore is offering some form of this service, or plans to. Stuart
Haber, one of the codevelopers, described this at last year's Hackers
Conference and presented a paper at the Crypto '90 conference, or
possibly the Crypto '91. (I have a Xerox of the paper someplace and
may be able to dig it up if you're interested)


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