From: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:04:48 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: The future will be easy to use
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>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:05:29 -0800
>From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
>
>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.  

Thanks for that reminder.  I am actually not bound to the notion of keys
being only for people.  I'm a defender of the rights of disembodied
processes from way back :-).  However, this particular discussion was
focussed on people.

 - Carl

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