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Re: Web O Trust, active attacks against same, etc. AGAIN.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Dec 14 01:42:35 1995

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:00:09 -0800
To: bryce@colorado.edu
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List), e$@thumper.vmeng.com

At 01:39 PM 12/13/95 -0700, Bryce wrote:
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> An entity calling itself "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> 
>allegedly wrote:
>>
>> Web of trust is a mess because it attempts to link keys to 
>> physical people, which in general cannot be done.
>                   *******************************
>
>
>Do you wish to substantiate this rather brazen assertion?  
>I am very sure that PGP public key 0xCC56B2E9 belongs to my
>housemate Sebastian Kuzminsky <kuzminsk@colorado.edu>.  Is
>there some reason why I should doubt this belief?

No, but there is some reason you should gain familiarity with 
the english language

If I had intended to say "generally cannot be done"  I would have
said "generally cannot be done" instead of saying "in general cannot 
be done"



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