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- Thanks to Takako Hickey, Roy Friedman, Robbert van Renesse,
Zhen Xiao, and Ohad Rodeh for descriptions of their contributions.
- 1
- MAC, Message Authentication
Code. This is typically a keyed hash function.
- 2
- symmetric encryption/MAC is roughly 1000
times faster than equivalent public key operations.
- 3
- An Ensemble address is comprised
of a set of identifiers, for example an IP address and a PGP principal
name. Generally, an address includes an identifier for each
communication medium the endpoint is using {UDP,TCP,MPI,ATM,..}.
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- Polymorphic comparison is used here.