arbiter/escrow agent for hire
Gary Howland
gary at systemics.com
Mon Apr 29 11:02:30 PDT 1996
bryce at digicash.com wrote:
> Black Unicorn <unicorn at schloss.li> wrote:
> (> "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:)
> > > IIRC, currently Black Unicorn doesn't have any signatures on
> > > his public key of others. Therefore, this requirement, while understandable,
> > > could cause a bit of a difficulty in the current situation.
> >
> > Please obtain a copy of my current key by finger.
>
> Oh please. My respect for Uni's acumen just decremented a
> couple of notches. A 2048-bit key, and no signatures?
> Rather like a front door with welded plate armor and an open
> window, no?
>
> Let's talk more off-list...
Hang on! This is interesting - keep in on-list!
What's the big deal about not having signed his own key?
The only thing that signing your own key does is show the
[claimed] id of the real keyholder. There's no scope for
abuse. Claiming this to be an armour door and open window
is overreacting a bit.
Gary
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pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary at systemics.com>
Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06
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