On 2014-04-29, at 12:12 PM, ianG <i...@iang.org> wrote: > On 29/04/2014 17:14 pm, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>> Back in the before time (1990s), I had feared that this was going to be a >> big problem. That people would take the take “trust the authenticity” of a >> message to be “trust the veracity” of the message. But as it turns out, we >> haven’t seen a substantially higher proportion of fraud of this nature than >> in meatspace. I think it is because reputations are now so fragile. > > > That last comment. Yes, either the system worked, or the system never > worked, and wasn't needed. > > http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001255.html I just wanted to say that I love that document. It brought back memories. At some other time, I’d like to talk with you about point 9 about client IDs. I had been spectacularly wrong about them at the time. Cheers, -j _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
