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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: User authentication
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.194045.1943@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- References: <6002@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de> <6069@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:40:45 GMT
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- In article <6069@transfer.stratus.com> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
- >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.
-
- --------------------
-
- Lost Key alert:
-
- It has come to our attention that our private key has been
- lost. Please stop using the old public key at once and use this
- new key instead "&*(413nmlfs09uln1143".
-
- CEO of IBM
-
- ----------------------
-
- Can I now transfer some money?
-
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