Re: [ltans] Harber and Stornetta expiry

How do we know governments will last that long?

Very few institutions have existed more than a few hundred years without
major changes in function and structure. Oxford was founded as a religious
community and only made training for the priesthood the primary purpose in
the middle ages. The idea of being a general purpose educator comes from the
Victorian era.

What I like about the Harber & Stornetta approach is that it allows multiple
archives to be bound together in ways that makes their integrity
interdependent.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:32 PM, todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>wrote:

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> On 7/18/2011 5:07 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Peter Sylvester <
> peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr> wrote:
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>>  The purpose of hash linking schemes is to link time stamps together and
>> to be able to verify them without the need of any cryptographic key
>> which have the tendency to have their secrecy evaporate.
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>  Its not the secrecy that worries me, its the ability to state with
> confidence that the TSA will be around after the commercial incentive is
> gone.
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>  Its pretty easy to build a business case to support a registry of digital
> signatures on mortgage notes to last 30-50 odd years. There is a lot of
> money at stake and there will always be someone collecting on the note.
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>  The problem is that we only have this type of business models for a small
> number of signatures and they are pretty boring applications. That still
> leaves open the question of how we make digital libraries as authentic and
> trustworthy as paper ones used to be.
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>  Print is dead. In 100 years time nobody will be printing books other than
> for religious or sentimental reasons. People can argue about whether that
> should happen but it is very clear that it will happen.
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>  A couple of years ago GM went bankrupt. A couple of weeks ago the worlds
> largest circulation tabloid went out of business despite robust profits. How
> can we say with confidence that a TSA is going to be around in 100 years
> time?
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> By making it a government service so it is not tied to the marketspace...
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> Why do you think Certichron does what it does - by the way - we just opened
> the 10th NIST Server we operate!
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> Todd
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