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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!murignis!ap542!D012S436!frank
- From: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de ()
- Subject: Re: Secure netnews
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.131423.15780@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: news@sniap.mchp.sni.de (News Admin)
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <1992Aug27.183018.9873@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 13:14:23 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
- : 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.
-
- My "site" knows me pretty darn well. They have issued me with a
- id card with photo and mag stripe to enter the building. They
- provided this on production of my passport. In security terms,
- they "know" me.
-
- : 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.
-
- It doesn't have to be your site admin. Anybody that I trust,
- who can vouch for your identity (and your key) will do.
-
- :
- : >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.
- :
- : 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?
-
- It's not. We still need face to face meetings. Just much less
- of them. Making this type of solution more scalable to a large
- community of users.
-
- : --
- : Stanley Chow InterNet: schow@BNR.CA
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- : (613) 763-2831
- : Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
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