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1997-04-19 - Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa

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From: Steve <steve@edmweb.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Message Hash: 5046a951df5b23de5b8c477e9c81daf8251d10bd597228b7fce8de01f886934b
Message ID: <199704192038.NAA19881@kirk.edmweb.com>
Reply To: <199704191434.JAA01685@homeport.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-19 20:39:24 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:39:24 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Steve <steve@edmweb.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
In-Reply-To: <199704191434.JAA01685@homeport.org>
Message-ID: <199704192038.NAA19881@kirk.edmweb.com>
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> If the Netscape folks would integrate digicash into Communicator,
> then I could program my browser to only send referer to sites that
> paid for the information, and rent cookie space.  Want your cookie to
> live till 1999?  Thats 24 months, at 50 cents per month...do you want
> to pay?

That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web
robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of
worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web
browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to
blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits.

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