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A distributed systems approach to secure Internet mail
2005
Computers & security
One of the obstacles to improved security of the Internet is ad hoc development of technologies with different design goals and different security goals. This paper proposes reconceptualizing the Internet as a secure distributed system, focusing specifically on the application layer. The notion is to replace specific functionality by an equivalent, based on principles discovered in research on distributed systems in the decades since the initial development of the Internet. Because of the
doi:10.1016/j.cose.2005.03.007
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