[44138] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Wed Nov 29 11:39:48 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:29:27 EST
From: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Cc: raph@c2.org, cypherpunks@toad.com, cme@TIS.COM
In-Reply-To: "James A. Donald"'s message of Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:05:29 -0800 <199511290707.XAA24211@blob.best.net>
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>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:05:29 -0800
>From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.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.
Thanks for that reminder. I am actually not bound to the notion of keys
being only for people. I'm a defender of the rights of disembodied
processes from way back :-). However, this particular discussion was
focussed on people.
- Carl
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