From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 16:54:08 +0800
To: janke@unixg.ubc.ca
Subject: Re: Pseudo-DC-net Project
In-Reply-To: <m291cu1g0w.fsf@clouds.heaven.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.94.960709013255.1246C-100000@gak>
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On 8 Jul 1996 janke@unixg.ubc.ca wrote:

> 
> Thank you for the comments, but I'm not sure I fully understand them 
> all. First of all what is a TLA? Second of all, and this seems to be

A TLA is a Three Letter Acronym.  Such examples would be FBI, NSA, DEA, and
CIA.
> 
> I hadn't thought of using a ring topology... Interesting. I'll think
> about that one some more.

The ring topology is definitely more secure.  A DC-Net has to have at least
three hosts to be of any use.  When a centralized server is used, the security
is basically lost.

> 
> How do hash trees help? Is that mentioned in the paper you cite? I'll
> take a look at that one before long. What's the title and author?

Hash trees help by preventing collisions while preserving anonymity.  The
property of hash trees is that it takes log 2(N) number of elements of the
tree to verify where N is the total number of elements in the tree.

- -- Mark

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