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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <6069@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:07:00 GMT
- References: <6002@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
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- In article <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
- >: 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.
-
-
- If there are no public key accounts, then you can't be delivering a public
- key. To deliver the public key, you need a bank willing to take public
- keys. That means there are accounts. Once there are accounts, any
- deposits into them will have to be made with the public key.
-
- Such accounts have nothing to do with any non-public-key accounts which any
- corporation might or might not have in any other bank.
-
- And, as I said, once you have a public key account, I don't care what
- pronounceable name you use. I (the bank) will ignore it. The only thing
- which matters is the public key.
-