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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!murignis!ap542!D012S436!frank
- From: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de ()
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: news@sniap.mchp.sni.de (News Admin)
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <6002@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 13:55:12 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug28.140721.599@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
- : > O.K., I'm IBM. Our key is:
- : >
- : > begin bigblue.key
- : > ;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU
- : > end
- : >
- : >
- : >Now, can I withdraw some money from our account?
- :
- : No problem.
- :
- : Your account is named by your public key -- not by some silly collection
- : of letters, such as "IBM".
-
- Don't be silly, we have no public key accounts just yet - I'm
- delivering you the VERY FIRST KEY FOR IBM.
-
- :
- : The money in the account all came from the person who knew the factorization
- : of that RSA key -- so the person who knows the factorization is allowed
- : to take it out.
-
- It's IBMs account. The money in the account came from IBM, there
- are no public key accounts yet.
-
- What I'm trying to show you is that you will need some
- proof that I represent IBM (I don't :-) *before* you will
- accept my key and set up my/our "RSA account". The
- original poster was saying that unidentified keys
- are acceptable for groups - they're not, though they
- may be alright for anonymous posting type applications.
-
- IBM probably hasn't that much money anymore, in any case :-)
-
- --
- Frank O'Dwyer Disclaimer:
- Siemens-Nixdorf AG I will deny everything
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