on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:32:01AM -0500, david nicol (davidnicol@pay2send.com) wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I've been trying to popularize a centralized challenge-response
> database since last fall. It seems to me that becoming a debian
> package maintainer for the software to use it would make sense.
>
> Unlike TMDA's distributed profusion of extended addresses, a
> central RAPNAP (return address, peer network address pair) database
> only needs to send out a challenge when you change your outgoing
> SMTP server. In effect, a central server caches challenge responses,
> so individual challenges are no required all the time.
All the faults of C-R and TMDA, with the added efficacy reduction factor
that trust is now made transitive across the all users over the entire
system.
Bzzt. You lose.
Try again.
Peace.
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