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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:40:04 -0700 From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
I don't really care whether the name is called an attribute, a distinguished name, or an ooblek. I just don't see how you're going to get along without it. The fact is, we live in a world populated by people and companies and we use names to identify them. I will grant that there are problems with uniqueness but I don't think the solution can be to just give up on the whole idea of names since they are so messy.
We're not talking about giving up on names. You have lots of names for things -- some of them are even nicknames, known only to you. For any certification scheme, you also need a unique name. If you happen to use the public key as that unique name, you have the proposal we're talking about. It has an advantage -- that you don't have to certifiy the binding between the unique name and the key. That's built in. -Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@tis.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |Trusted Information Systems, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ | |3060 Washington Road PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2| |Glenwood MD 21738 Tel:(301)854-6889 FAX:(301)854-5363 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMHlSzVQXJENzYr45AQFYvgP+O12CvK058nWvhvq48QIqIBo8N5jU6uqN 8kFagz2iKPLcv+cLJ7AiFiOAU3mY5CiWkU0pK6z9YlNgB7d5SNqyzpAL8jIe6zgI xD5hAesL6Pz85f8OLAn9teoydW9k3QzBekOeT0xCKkIj8+8KUDM7nrUMl2t08bTr OG53eFdFD6o= =d7lq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----