> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Rick Smith at Secure Computing wrote: > Hmmm. I'm able to walk into a bank in semi-rural Italy and pull hundreds of > dollars out of my credit card account. I'm able to buy subscriptions to > Russian news sites. This seems pretty world-wide and Internet-wide to me. > Existing systems work pretty well even if they don't achieve some cosmic > notion of "Trust" or "Identity."
The point is, without this cosmic notion of trust, _I_ could walk into a bank in semi-rurual Turkey and pull hundreds of dollars from YOUR credit card ac- count. (Unless I was there during an earthquake, and all the telephone lines were down and all I had was 20 USD, 10 million Turkish Lira, my passport, and a copy of Knuth. <grrr>) vertigo --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
