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Re: Reply Blocks and Best-Before



On Wed, 05 Mar 2003, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 17:49, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > Additionally it allows to narrow down one node in the chain to the set
> > of nodes to rotate their key on the expiry-date day.  If this is only
> > one, then we probably know one node of the chain for sure.
> 
> If I understand what you're saying, this is not so.   Users choose an
> expiry date *first* (default 7 days)

Thanks for the clarification.  I was under the impression that a chain
was chosen randomly and then the expiry time was set to the earliest
key-rotation time of the nodes used.

Peter
[sorry for the late reply, I was quite busy]
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