Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

[Daniel C. Sobral]

"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> 
> the only portable user ids are names as strings. you can kludge and kludge
> but at some point the kludges will pile up too high, fall over, and hurt
> somebody. how many new options did we see proposed in the last 12 hours
> for this problem?

Actually, I think that's a kludge too. I'd rather go for encrypted
data with a signature based on a public/private key algorithm,
having the signature stand for "user id". But then, I have trouble
going half way when it comes down to security.

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