Quote from: Scumby on November 05, 2014, 07:55:41 AM

Quote from: SlipperySlope on November 04, 2014, 07:32:31 PM

Could you elaborate on the positive implications?

A design where IP addresses are transient and used to sign hashes, wherein the next IP to be assigned to a given node is random, would seem to be harder for an adversary with unlimited computing power to precompute and attack. This extremely-dynamic IP assignment is built into IPv6. That was the thought.

Each distributed agent/role has a self-signed X.509 certificates for digital signatures and for SSL/TLS communication channel encryption. The tamper-evident data structures, e.g. agent logs, are signed by X.509 certificates. I plan to use the solar flux chaos value as you suggested in the KSI scheme which ties together all the distributed tamper-evident data structures into a temporal merkel tree whose root hash value is widely known.

Could you help me understand how transient IPv6 addresses can be used to sign hashes? The system needs the X.509 certificates to establish unique agent/role identity that persists over time.

I really appreciate the thought that you have given to this project.