James A. Donald writes
Specs, anyone? > > I suggest a few requirements: > > Store the keys, and information about the keys in a *real* database > ...
At 09:31 AM 11/29/95 -0500, Jack P. Starrantino wrote:
Is this worth the complexity/cost? I'd have thought that the amount of data involved would be small enough that index hashing would be overkill, and I can't think of any operations that would require a full up db engine.
I think you envisage communicating with a few other revolutionaries, drug trafficers, etc, whereas I envisage a future where every man is his own bank and his own credit rating agency. More immediately, any extension to the web of trust to enable it to function for anything more interesting and important than logical-to-physical identity (and who gives a tinkers damn about logical-to-physical identity) will require a real database, or will be painful without a real database. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com