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Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Mar 26 17:56:13 2003

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:43:06 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: Jeroen van Gelderen <jeroen@vangelderen.org>,
	bear <bear@sonic.net>, "Douglas F. Calvert" <dfc@anize.org>,
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <200303250036.20891.iang@systemics.com>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:36:20AM -0500, Ian Grigg wrote:

| So, do we have two completely disjoint communities
| here?  One group that avoids "photo id" and another
| that requires it?  Or is one group or the other so
| small that nobody really noticed?

Yes.

One group thinks that a bad trust chain is worse than no trust
chains.  This group tends to think that fake ID is easy, and that ID
based signatures reduce trust in the web.

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume



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