[6888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Jan 11 00:46:24 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:37:23 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: avg@pluris.com, dan@dpcsys.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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>The Usenix key signing is a good model for techie types, but
>we are the minority. How would the great unwashed have their
>keys signed?
This looks like a business opportunity. I think it may make
sense for somebody to establish a nation wide network of
Public Notaries who'd be certifying that the physical person
has this-and-that document (drivers license, etc) and has that
key. A central office would maintain a registry of personal
keys. We all could use the registry to verify the signatures.
Such certification could cost something like $10 per key. I'd
certainly be willing to pay that much to have a certified key.
Given the potential customer base of 20-50 million, that would
make a nice business case.
- --vadim
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