At 07:45 PM 9/1/00 -0400, petro wrote: > Of course, one of there roles could be "verification" of the >press release, i.e. Emulex signs it, and rather than having to have >985,234,003 keys on my key ring to verify every press release I read, >the News Service can sign the whole thing saying "we witness that >this press release was signed with the proper key".. Couldn't software automatically check releases against a key given by a URL? (Skipping the problems with DNS, etc.) But yeah its always good to have human reputations on the line, too.
