[DFSci] Vanish (Wilson Naik Bhukya)

[Gregg Gunsch]

Here's my take on them (based on a very quick read).  I'm always happy to be
corrected.

The Ephemerizer appears to be a centralized, trusted, third party
application that handles key management and expiration.  Vanish doesn't
require trust for key management: keys are dispersed into an untrusted P2P
network.  For someone to recover keys out of the Vanish network, they would
need access to all of the involved nodes, which they likely would not own.

- Gregg
 
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:51:07 +0530 (IST)
From: "Wilson Naik Bhukya" <naikcs at uohyd.ernet.in>
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I would like to know how this vanish is different from this paper:

The Ephemerizer: Making Data Disappear. Radia Perlman. SMLI TR-2005-140.
February 2005 (research.sun.com/techrep/2005/smli_tr-2005-140.pdf)