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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: <1992Aug31.133100.15986@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: news@sniap.mchp.sni.de (News Admin)
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <5978@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 13:31:00 GMT
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- cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug27.132835.13294@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
- : >You could show me your passport (for example), then I'd know who you
- : >are. Enough to associate you with the key you give me.
- :
- : You don't know me so you have no way of knowing if I'm the one who handed
- : you the key and showed you the passport with my name on it.
-
- Come on, the passport identifies you. That's what it's for.
- Argue about possible attacks on a passport if you like,
- but this is absurd. The point is that real world id
- methods exist, and can be used to authenticate a key,
- in the sense of associating it with a real world individual.
-
- : On the other hand, if we had a true broadcast mechanism -- eg., amateur
- : radio? -- something which can't be spliced into so that the imposter could
- : trap all your traffic or mine -- then we don't need to meet. All I have to
- : do is broadcast my key and monitor my own broadcast.
-
- This is a nice idea.
-
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