>>>>> François Pinard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (FP) wrote:
>FP> Protection against replay is easily guaranteed by sequencing requests, >FP> that is, including a sequence number within the message, each originator >FP> his sequence. A digital signature prevents someone from tampering with >FP> the sequence number without being detected. Of course. But with the originators manually sending the requests by email (at least that's how I understood it), this may be a nuisance. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list