They claim to make an effort that the email address is unique, and that Verisign!!'s shamrock@netcom.com will only be issued once. Adam E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: | | | From: IN%"shamrock@netcom.com" 9-MAY-1996 23:02:01.67 | | >At 19:37 5/9/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: | >> I can see some fascinating legal questions with what, exactly, a | >>VeriSign certificate obligates the company for. Digital signature laws should | >>get interesting - any application of this to the Utah one? | | >VeriSign is going to offer four levels of certs. The first requires only | >uniqueness. For the other three levels, VeriSign will require more and | >better assurances of the correctness of True Name stated on the cert. I | >don't know what form these assurances are supposed to take. | | The first level, in other words, is less of a certification than a PGP | key with self-signature and signature from one other person. It doesn't have | _any_ effort to verify that the email address stated on it is the actual email | address of that nym. Or am I misinterpreting you? | -Allen | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume