At 08:52 PM 3/21/96 PST, hoz@univel wrote:

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... someone had left thier keys in the door lock. So being the good cypherpunk that I am I jumped out and grabbed the keys from the lock, then knocked on the window. The passenger rolled down the window and accepted the keys back. Much to my surprise the passenger was none other than Whitfield Diffie.

Let me get this straight. You performed a key exchange with Whitfield Diffie? His keys were publicly available, and you securely transferred them back again? What a concept!

Weren't those his _private_ keys, though? You probably shouldn't be able to transfer those in a secure system. ObCrypto: would the transfer of private keys be necessarily a good thing? Or would a transfer of "reputation" be a better idea? Example: suppose, and this is _very_ hypothetical, that the President of the U.S. has a PGP key. (We can dream, eh?) Would it be wiser to transfer that key from one President to the next, or have the President sign the President-elect's new key? (I'm stretching here - feel free to killfile me.) dave --- David Smith, Intellecutal Terrorist http://www.midwest.net/scribers/dsmith/