Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Fri Nov 30 14:05:13 PST 2001


Not the messages signed by the purchaser of the Nym, as those would not be
signed with the Nym's signature.

----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---------------------------
 + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\
  \|/  :aren't security.  A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\
<--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you   \/|\/
  /|\  :masked killer, but  |don't email them, or put them on a web  \|/
 + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often.
--------_sunder_ at _sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Sunder wrote:
> 
> > Following which the buyer posts all the signed emails between self and
> > seller detailing the fraudulent transaction.
> 
> Worthless, as all of those messages could have been forged. Or did you
> mean to say that they had been dated by a third party timestamping
> service?
> 
> The fact is, digital signatures are irrelevant if private keys can be
> compromised.
> 
> 
> -MW-





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