Ian G wrote:

> Indeed.  Establish facts, and build on them.  Sadly,
> we have very little experience of signing weapons
> being used under fire.  Things like the PGP family's
> fairly sophisticated web of trust have not really ever
> been attacked, and neither has my own contract
> signing technology.

Ummm the PGP web of trust is only as sophisticated as the person using
it, I have seen a varying degree of "trust" placed in it simply because
there is no strict guidelines on usage/what the hell a signature means.

I'd say the reason it hasn't been attacked is due to the potential low
yield, after all most people using PGP are early adopters/tech heads
which are likely to be a little smarter then the average user, and so
the yield would be minimal due to common sense of the demographic rather
then sophistication of the technology.

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Best regards,
 Duane

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