-- Everyone in America has several shared secrets identifying them -- the number of the beast to identify them to the state, and their credit card numbers identifying them to various financial institutions, plus a hundred passwords to login to their email, their bank, their network provider, e-gold, etc. The PKI idea was that we would instead use PK in place of shared secrets, but if an ordinary person had a private key, what could he use it for? The spam that seeks to get us to login to e-g0ld and the BankOf4merica.com works because the logins are based on shared secrets, not private keys, and the networks are setup to rely on shared secrets because there is no practical alternative. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG r9lUivpSt7tWiPOxVr17a9sjkgXnnbC5matqsa6/ 4UovWiFVbzH8bFEhVsekeydmrrDmez+5/B/3ZSo4B