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Re: About that "Mighty Fortress"... What's it look like?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Klimov)
Tue Aug 17 11:12:06 2010
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:04:00 +0300
From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20100731112429.5373e699@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> You are still following the same model that has failed over and over
> and over again. "Endorsing" keys is the same "we have no internet,
> so we rely on having big books to tell us whether a person's credit
> card was stolen" model.
>
> There is no rational reason at all that someone should "endorse" a
> key when it is possible to simply do a real time check for
> authorization. There is no reason to sign a key when you can just
> check if the key is in a database.
Each real-time check reveals your interest in the check. What about
privacy implications?
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Regards,
ASK
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