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- From: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de ()
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.113023.2090@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: news@sniap.mchp.sni.de (News Admin)
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <18293.Aug3004.52.1592@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 11:30:23 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug28.140033.466@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- : > So if this is interesting, how come more people don't post anonymously?
- : > Why is your message signed Dan Bernstein, not Guess Who?
- :
- : Where do you get the idea that people don't often post anonymously?
-
- I can't imagine. Reality?
-
- I have been working with computers for about 10 years, and I
- don't even *know how* to post anonymously. I know how to
- find out, but I've never bothered. Never felt the need.
- Like most people I know.
-
- : (In the July 1992 Bulletin of the AMS, Shreeram Abhyankar says that
- : Peter Neumann said that William Snow Burnside, who worked on the theory
- : of equations, is not the same as William Burnside, who worked on the
- : theory of groups of finite order. Both obtained a D.Sc. from Dublin
- : around 1890.)
-
- Same name != Same person. We know.
-
- : > But I also see applications for secure newsgroups based on
- : > real world identities.
- :
- : I do not. In fact, unless you have an application which depends on the
- : difference between one real person with two names and two people who
- : happen to cooperate (overtly or secretly), an obvious isomorphism
- : argument shows that your application *cannot* depend on ``real world
- : identities.'' Except for certain government functions (such as voting) I
-
- Say what? Think of email firstly. Think of the applications
- for Non-repudiation, for example, that that offers. Think of EDI.
- Think of digital contracts.
-
- Now generalise email, and get conferencing and netnews. Why
- shouldn't generalised email have the same applications?
-
- : see no such applications; and those functions won't be carried out on
- : newsgroups any time this millenium.
-
- Here we agree.
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