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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!ken
  3. From: ken@eskimo.celestial.com (Ken Pizzini)
  4. Subject: Re: Secure netnews
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug29.003635.4013@eskimo.celestial.com>
  6. Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
  7. References: <1992Aug27.132835.13294@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
  8. Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:36:35 GMT
  9. Lines: 10
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  11. frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
  12. > You could show me your passport (for example), then I'd know who you 
  13. > are.  Enough to associate you with the key you give me. Enough
  14. > to know you weren't skippy...
  15.  
  16. But the Passport Issuing Authority would have to be a trusted
  17. third party, which, in my understanding of the problem statement,
  18. was to be avoided.
  19.  
  20.         --Ken Pizzini
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