Re: http+aes

In message <0AB4526732901E45B9B3A55FFD725D67019CBB16@AUS-EXCHANGE.microfocus.co
m>, "Michael Wojcik" writes:

>> You cut and paste the link, and anybody who receives it can view
>> the copyrighted object, and you have no idea who leaked it.
>
>Actually, I think it's potentially worse than that. Consider this case:
>
>- Publisher puts 100 copies of each resource on CDN, each encrypted with
>a different key.

What you propose is what's called "Thatcherizing" a document: During
the Thatchers government, they tweaked the spacing in a confidential
memo so that each recipients copy were unique, in order to expose
who leaked it to the press.

It is however, not an argument for the circus-crypto og http+aes


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