[44108] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Nov 29 02:10:52 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:05:29 -0800
To: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>, raph@c2.org
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, cme@TIS.COM
At 03:30 PM 11/28/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
> Of course. This isn't the base case. We would have some keys which I sign
> based on my own personal knowledge; things handed to me by people I know;
> some possibly published in the paper where the real key owner would see the
> claim and be able to contest it.
You are making the same erroneous assumption that Phil made when he
designed the Web of trust: You assume that it is important and
interesting to link key ID's to physical bodies. This is usually
not the case: Linking key ID's to home web pages etc is not only
easier -- it is also usually more interesting and important.
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