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1994-08-09 - Re: broadcast encryption

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Message Hash: 6ade9cf9ef0100db2ffa764be61a2a9138606ea61c996310dde6d3893616ab6c
Message ID: <9408091723.AA23559@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <9408091649.AA22593@ah.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-08-09 17:24:16 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 9 Aug 94 10:24:16 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 94 10:24:16 PDT
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: broadcast encryption
In-Reply-To: <9408091649.AA22593@ah.com>
Message-ID: <9408091723.AA23559@snark.imsi.com>
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Eric Hughes says:
>    > What is the policy purpose for signing packets?  It will affect the
>    > design.
> 
>    Anyone even making such suggestions has not been following the IPSP
>    standardization work...
> 
> I wasn't asking what _the_ purpose was, but rather what the purpose
> the original author (coming out of the context of a radio discussion)
> had in mind.  I know _lots_ of reasons for signing packets in some
> way.

Oh, I understood what you were saying -- I didn't understand what the
orignal author could be looking for...

.pm

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