From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:52:39 +0800
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re:  pretty good reputation
Message-ID: <199606160331.XAA12152@unix.asb.com>
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On 15 Jun 96 at 13:09, Hal wrote:
[..]
> There was considerable discussion in the design of PGP's key signatures
> on this issue, and Phil decided against trying to let people express
> publicly how much they trust others.  Among other things, he was afraid
> that people would feel compelled to lie for social reasons, leading to
> inaccurate trust estimates and weak key validations.

Good point.

Any system with multi-valued or yes/no signatures becomes 
unresolvable in a web, making these values useless beyond an order or 
one or two levels.

We've argued about this before on the list...

Another interesting point, though: feature creep.  Something like 
that may be another intimidating factor that turns people off from 
PGP.

Rob

 
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