on Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:00:53PM -0400, Travis Crump (pretzalz@techhouse.org) wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > What's worse is that so far noone's told me how two people using C-R > > ever > >*start* communicating. Person 1 mails person 2. Person 2's C-R sends off > >a > >challenge to Person 1. Person 1's C-R sends off a challenge to Person 2. > >Repeat. > > > > > > I think the theory is that Person 1 automatically whitelists person 2 > when he sends him an email. Not that I really see how this helps when > person 1 sends email from computer X and receives email on computer Y. > Apparently these people only ever use one computer. Still wrong. A sends a message to B. A autowhitelists B. A _receives a challenge not from B, but from B's C-R system. Since B's C-R system isn't known, A's C-R system sends a challenge in response. Rinse, wash, repeat. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
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