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From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Time Stamping Again.
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-09-15T10:25:46-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <395c1784-1a44-42ab-811a-92cb1c624d04@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k329js$km9$2@online.de>

On Saturday, September 15, 2012 5:15:56 PM UTC+1, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Austin Obyrne wrote: > I guess there's nothing that can't be perverted in some way. Well, you can't do the same sort of tampering with checksums (or even GPG signatures). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@altum.de> Tel: +49 (0)2471 209385 | Mobil: +49 (0)176 34473913 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Jabber: dirk.heinrichs@altum.de

Like a lot of other things in computer science this whole topic bears a lot of discussion that is apppication-specific on a particular day maybe but not generally the case on all other days.

Frankly, 

Quote:

 "Well, you can't do the same sort of tampering with checksums (or even GPG signatures)." 

This is highly subjective and I think I can demonstrate that in a real situation that the 'tampering' he says is feasible is not in fact possible to implement undetected but arguments are possible all the time.

Thanks for your input - adacrypt 

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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  8:39 Time Stamping Again Austin Obyrne
2012-09-14 18:58 ` Simon Wright
2012-09-14 20:11   ` Austin Obyrne
2012-09-14 21:10     ` björn lundin
2012-09-15  7:25       ` Austin Obyrne
2012-09-15 16:15         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2012-09-15 17:25           ` Austin Obyrne [this message]
2012-09-14 21:09   ` Austin Obyrne
2012-09-15 10:15     ` Pascal Obry
2012-09-15 11:38       ` Austin Obyrne
2012-09-15 16:12         ` Dirk Heinrichs
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