Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-07 Thread Anonymous Sender
James A. Donald writes: Suppose the e-gold, to prevent this sea of spam trying to get people to login to fake e-gold sites, wanted people to use public keys instead of shared secrets, making your secret key the instrument that controls the account instead of your shared password. They

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 6 Jun 2003 at 17:45, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: ??? public key registered in place of shared-secret? NACHA debit trials using digitally signed transactions did it with both software keys as well as hardware tokens. http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html in the above scroll

Hitchens: The Cult of ID

2003-06-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Christopher Hitchens on the mystification of identity Several times a week, to enter a TV studio say, or to board a plane, I have to produce a tiny picture of my face. One for my .sig file, certainly, but, wait, there's, um, more... Cheers, RAH --