From: IN%"reagle@MIT.EDU" "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." 9-MAY-1996 18:30:11.78

The very term "Web of Trust" makes one pause with respect to independent events.

Quite. Keys signed by an individual who turns out to be untrustworthy may very well be keys of nyms of that individual; under many circumstances, all are trustworthy or none are trustworthy. -Allen