Re: Registering keys

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From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:01

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In <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl> garfield@utopia.hacktic.nl (garfield) writes:

>Why all the fuss about registering keys?? If they want them.. give them 
>what they want.. If everyone registeres 10 or 15 keys and each key is 10K 
>in size.... Then they have a slight problem of storage...

No, no, no...you just don't have the right attitude.

What you do is register 2^32 keys (you have a key-generating function
with a 32 bit seed).
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From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Registering keys
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