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Re: [perpass] Draft charter for a Transparency Working Group

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Thu, 12 December 2013 16:36 UTC

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Ben

> How about this footnote?
>
> "A cryptographically verifiable log is an append-only log of hashes of
> more-or-less anything that can prove its own correctness
> cryptographically. See RFC 6962,
>
I'd like something a bit more technical, since the phrase "prove its
own correctness" is pretty general. Hopefully there is text in 6962
that you can use.

Steve

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