Re: A new type of phishing attack

Bill Frantz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
Message-ID <r422Ps-1075i-9F3475C9F6A74DC0B5F72DA9E714B580@Williams-MacBook-Pro.local>
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

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