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- From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Secure netnews
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.183018.9873@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- References: <1992Aug18.221506.13535@Princeton.EDU> <1992Aug27.131849.13130@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:30:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.131849.13130@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- >wrong. islands of trust already exist, it's a matter of
- >building bridges between them.
- >
- >my site knows me well. Your site knows you.
-
- Wrong. You know your site well. Your site has no knowledge of anything.
- The administrator of your site probably does not know you well. There
- are certainly many people who does not trust their site because they
- know their site (and/or administrator) well.
-
- >Therefore your site can certify (sign) your public key. Mine can
- >certify mine. All that is required now is for our sites to cross
- >certify each other's keys.
-
- Even if you trust your site, and I believe that you trust your site
- and you believe that I trust my site; you have merely moved the
- problem to estrablishing trust between my site and your site.
- In what way is this problem easier than establishing trust between
- you and I?
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