From: gnu (John Gilmore)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 19:08:40 PDT
To: cypherpunks
Subject: `Web of trust model' matches common business situation too
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Date:  Thu, 5 Aug 93 14:33 EDT
From: TCJones@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Interestingly, I am coming to the conclusion that big business operates
on a web of trust very much like what is found in PGP.  There are
Dun&Bradstreet reports of course, but, bye-and-large, when a company
wants credit, they give a list of the other companies that they do
business with as evidence of their trustworthiness in receiving credit.

Peace ..Tom Jones