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Jacob Coby wrote:
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> Does the system trust one root authority alone, or does it sample multiple
> authorities to make sure that one hasn't been overtaken?
It has to survive a nuclear war, so there isn't one root authority. The diagrams
I saw in the talk looked just like the web of trust to me, but the speaker said
that it was more organised than that. I assume it's layed like ntp. How
machines check each other I don't know.
Joe
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