On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: > Leo, > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: >>
<snip> > > This sounds an awfully lot like the notary concept: > - http://perspectives-project.org/ > - http://convergence.io/ > > Furthermore, changing network paths used to reach information probably > should not be reason to shut down a service, in general. More > interesting than which path is used, I suppose, is whether or not the > data being returned has been changed in some unexpected/undesired way. Actually, some other related work that's been around for 3-6 years includes: - http://vantage-points.org/ - http://secspider.cs.ucla.edu/ The former has a tech report (listed on its page, http://techreports.verisignlabs.com/tr-lookup.cgi?trid=1110001 ) that presents candidate closed form analysis of how much faith you can gain using network path diversity. Eric
