On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 01:29 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:48:05PM -0400, Dave Grey wrote: > > > > On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:44 PM, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > > > > > >While I appreciate the problems Matthew is going through, this is a > > >complex issue, and one that has plagued the net for a long time. > > >How do > > >you authenticate random people on the internet as 1. unique and 2. as > > >themselves. > > > > Could x.509 help here? It is a lot of added overhead, for sure, but > > if some one were to create an asterisk-community CA and implement a > > "web of trust" model... *shrug*. > > you mean: send an email message at registration time and require that > the reply is signed by a "respectable" PGP key? >
What stops someone from getting multiple certificates? You are back to the original problem how do you authenticate people in a pseudo-anonymous network. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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