A funny story [noise]

[David E. Smith]

At 08:52 PM 3/21/96 PST, hoz at univel wrote:
>>... 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



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