On 13/03/11 7:22 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 3/12/2011 1:05 PM, MFPA wrote: >> How does the WoT idea require me to know the names or email addresses >> associated with the keys in the trust path? The text strings in User >> IDs do not feature in the trust calculation. > > Yes, in fact, they do. > > In my past, there's an ex-CEO whom I'll just call "Ben."
I wish you hadn't. ;) > Ben made some really astonishingly bad decisions that put him in > prison for eighteen months, and left me with a permanent distrust > for him. If I see Frank has signed Ben's certificate, and I trust > Frank, am I going to trust Ben? > > Of course not. I wouldn't trust him either. Regards, Ben
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