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Forward secure sealing

Posted Aug 25, 2012 1:59 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Forward secure sealing by nybble41
Parent article: Forward secure sealing

> hat's only true if you're willing to accept a gap in the logs from the first deleted entry to the beginning of the valid interval

so you delete everything and there's no 'valid' entry to compare anything to that will let you detect the gap.

I understand that they are claiming that this verification key eliminates the need to send any data off the box ever again, I'm just not believing it. If someone can point me to the peer reviewed papers that describe how the technology can work, I'll believe it.


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Posted Aug 25, 2012 2:12 UTC (Sat) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

> so you delete everything and there's no 'valid' entry to compare anything to that will let you detect the gap.

If you deleted everything then I wouldn't need a "valid" entry to compare against; the simple lack of previous logs would be plenty suspicious by itself.

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