From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:21:52 +0800
To: Carl Ellison <raph@c2.org
Subject: Re: The future will be easy to use
Message-ID: <199511290707.XAA24211@blob.best.net>
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At 03:30 PM 11/28/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
> Of course.  This isn't the base case.  We would have some keys which I sign
> based on my own personal knowledge; things handed to me by people I know;
> some possibly published in the paper where the real key owner would see the
> claim and be able to contest it.

You are making the same erroneous assumption that Phil made when he
designed the Web of trust:  You assume that it is important and 
interesting to link key ID's to physical bodies.  This is usually
not the case:  Linking key ID's to home web pages etc is not only 
easier -- it is also usually more interesting and important.
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