-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:
> Its the key distribution problem. Its the cause of all the troubles. I don't understand. Please explain. What's wrong with the following simple idea: 1. p2p: The parties opportunistically verify out-of-band after exchanging keys via public key servers or (insecure) email. 2. Prospective customer verification of merchant: Merchant includes the ID of its signing key in every advertisement and repeatedly admonishes prospects to "Accept No Substitutes". 3. Merchant authentication of Customer: Merchants don't deal with people. They deal with keys. It's the key that has the purchasing power, not some person. Nobody has the illusion that correlation between key and person is any stronger than that person's security habits. 4. Etc. - -- -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.9 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAlE2G5kACgkQDkU5rhlDCl5QggCdHIykKqh1NSupIu5/85okO50C fr0AoK95/a+NHJheC+78w6op8dooFuto =lSEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
