Re: The future will be easy to use
At 01:03 PM 11/28/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
That's true. What the user would have to see is some icon (or, for text-bound folks, a temporary unique string) until the user chooses and assigns the appropriate alias. That icon would have no meaning by itself. It would acquire a meaning by being associated with some message or set of messages:
Better method: Creator of the key names it: Usually after himself or his role: The recipients key database detects and resolves cases where two different keys have identical names in accordance with certification rules. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:57:25 -0800 From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
At 01:03 PM 11/28/95 EST, Carl Ellison wrote:
That's true. What the user would have to see is some icon (or, for text-bound folks, a temporary unique string) until the user chooses and assigns the appropriate alias. That icon would have no meaning by itself. It would acquire a meaning by being associated with some message or set of messages:
Better method: Creator of the key names it: Usually after himself or his role: The recipients key database detects and resolves cases where two different keys have identical names in accordance with certification rules.
That's today's method, more or less. It doesn't address my needs. The name you pick for your key may or may not mean anything to me. It might be pronounceable, giving it some advantage over a radix-64 string, but it might also be non-unique, making it worthless as an identifier. What means something to me is whatever name (or symbol) I assign to the person behind the key in question. That's the one in my mind and therefore the only one of interest to me. You, however, don't know what's in my mind. You don't even know my preferred symbol set. - 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 iQCVAwUBMLyCVlQXJENzYr45AQEqEQP+O23i/6bcPX60i249150mv39WdoO0sL1w pUtiZRs2PLACYTMA+DVP28upD4HRrk3/5Vd76EojPm5R8P/DWP190CccRo0t4xZ4 fM1kqEanvw1unV3Kd37ZjhD7tme5oN/v0ipjB2ETsrnowJnZ8HYhiF+WClK5ShhD gEAg71NQux8= =RyHR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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