From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 21:11:26 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Certificates, Attributes, Web of Trust
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In article <ac9961b42202100433c4@[205.199.118.202]>, tcmay@got.net
(Timothy C. May) wrote:
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> But I go further: a huge number of interesting applications of strong
> crypto have no connections at all with physical persons, let alone with
> True Names. Agents in computer transactions, applets fired across networks,
> agoric entities in computational ecologies, BlackNet sorts of markets, and
> on and on.

This is true. Some of the most interesting applications of crypto don't
involve True Names at all. The only reason, IMHO, why crypto is often
thought of in terms of communicating between two True Names is because it
is an obvious application to the layman. But it are the Blacknet type of
uses where crypto really shines.
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