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Jon Callas <[email protected]> writes:
> The nicest thing you say about it is that it replaces an
> identification problem Grandma can understand (how do you know
> that's Amazon -- a store you've never been to before?) with an
> identification problem that she can't (how do you know that's not
> someone who isn't Amazon pretending to be Amazon, a store you've
> never heard of before).
Drill Grandma on one thing:
FORGET THE TELEPHONE NUMBER. REMEMBER THE KEY ID.
If she's smart enough to know to write down or remember the telephone
number, she's smart enough to re-channel that to the Key ID.
Merchants and banks proudly and prominently display their Key IDs on
their front pages and with all ads likely to catch Grandma's eye.
The rest is done by a local or on-line cryptographically-secure
directory indexed by Key ID.
Now retire the CAs and forget about them.
- --
-- StealthMonger <[email protected]>
Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity.
anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what?
http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain
stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom.
mailto:[email protected]?subject=send%20index.html
Key: mailto:[email protected]?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key
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