Signed document - a thought... (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at ssz.com
Sun Jan 18 08:38:22 PST 1998



Forwarded message:

> From: Jim Choate <ravage at ssz.com>
> Subject: Signed document - a thought...
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:31:36 -0600 (CST)

> document have a signature key and always submit the signed document prior
> to the signing key. After all it's the document and not the author (who we
> assume is already using an anonymous submission mechanism) we wish to verify
> from the end users perspective.

One other assumption that I left out after I sent it was that the data haven
and the key server are not the same machine. Sorry, I hope it makes a tad
more sense with that proviso included.

Sorry for sending an incomplete suggestion.


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