CDR: Re: Good work by FBI and SEC on Emulex fraud case

[David Honig]

At 07:45 PM 9/1/00 -0400, petro wrote:
>	Of course, one of there roles could be "verification" of the 
>press release, i.e. Emulex signs it, and rather than having to have 
>985,234,003 keys on my key ring to verify every press release I read, 
>the News Service can sign the whole thing saying "we witness that 
>this press release was signed with the proper key"..

Couldn't software automatically check releases against a key given
by a URL?   (Skipping the problems with DNS, etc.)

But yeah its always good to have human reputations on the line, too.