From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 12:50:32 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Senator, your public key please?
Message-ID: <199605182241.PAA22909@netcom8.netcom.com>
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At 10:44 AM 5/18/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>What if, for example, Sen. Leahy _did_ end up in the web of trust for Aryan
>Nation? Even if he never intended it, this could have some severe PR
>repercussions.

It could happen today.  All anyone has to do is down-load his key, sign it,
and then up-load it again.

This is exactly analogous to slanderous attack on someone's reputation.  As
soon as people realize that the mere fact that a key has a signature does
not mean that the key-owner solicited the signature, the problem goes away.


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