Re: A new type of phishing attack
Bill Frantz <[email protected]>
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On 9/13/14 at 10:59 AM, guido-EBfTt96odT/[email protected] (Guido Witmond) wrote: >I hold a capability to an item at a service, say an email at a mailbox. >My problem is making sure I present it to the correct mailbox-service of >all those billion hosts out there. If I connect to the wrong host, the >email might end up at the front page of a newspaper... > >The question is: how do I identify the correct service before invoking >the capability? The E language protocol had capabilities which consisted of a hash of the public key of the correct server and a "swiss number" which represented a "unguessable" name for the exact capability on the remote server. Cheers - Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz |The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle (408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanenbaum | Los Gatos, CA 95032