From khijol!erc@uunet.uu.net Thu Nov 23 16:21 EST 1995 From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <khijol!erc@uunet.uu.net>
..so..why the UUCP style address?
Subject: Re: crypto for porno users To: khijol!clark.net!cme@uunet.uu.net (Carl Ellison) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 15:57:17 -0600 (CST) Cc: khijol!got.net!edge@uunet.uu.net, khijol!toad.com!cypherpunks@uunet.uu.net
totally different from this "web of trust" I keep hearing about - and that is *it*. Do you trust me any more now than before I started signing my postings?
Actually, in my view, signed postings are the first step. With those (and the right S/W (not there yet)), I get to know that a bunch of postings came from the same person. I even know who they came from: the person who is capable of signing with key 0xXXXXXXXX. Since the only way I have of getting to know the person is through those postings, I get to know that person and through that knowledge I decide whether or not to trust. And, yes, I can be fooled. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +---------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison (aka Mother) -+