Pp. 141–154 of the Proceedings

The Eternal Resource Locator: An Alternative Means of Establishing Trust on the World Wide Web

3rd USENIX workshop on electronic commerce -- 31 August--3 September 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The Eternal Resource Locator: An Alternative Means of Establishing Trust on the World Wide Web

Ross J. Anderson, Vaclav Matyas Jr., Fabien A.P. Petitcolas
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK

• Introduction
• Wax
• The first lessons
• The Eternal Resource Locator
  • Basic (static) mechanism
  • Dynamic pages
• Other applications
  • Public keys with multiple accreditors
  • Timestamps
  • Other considerations
• The current version of Wax
  • Application of one-time Signatures
    • One-time signature basics
  • The current implementation
  • New books
  • New publishers
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Availability
• References
• About this document ...