Re: What are canlocks?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:01:02PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I'm getting a message from tin when I post saying "Can't open
> .cancelsecret", this apparently relates to canlocks.
> 
> What is all this about?

A mechanism to prevent forged cancels, but they must also be
implemented on the servers side (wich is rarely the case)
to protect the users articles.

http://www.karlsruhe.org/rfc/draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt

HTH,
urs