- From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
- Cc: rg@server.net, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Laurent Demailly wrote:
> somehow what 'tool' is used.... Of course ppl can joke/cheat, but
> unless you get digital signature of headers you can not avoid it
> {is that forseen ?}
>
It's part of HTTP-NG. I wasn't really thinking about the dangers of
people giving fake user-agents (leading to deaths by the 1,000); more on
the lines of supporting legally enforceable negotation options (for
example, those options dealing with the logging of requests and their
further redistribution). The mechanism will allow you to sign your
user-agent headers as well, but unless you've got one of those 1ms RSA
chips, that would be silly.
Simon
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(defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n"
(cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n))
((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n))
(t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))
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