Re: The future will be easy to use

[Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>]

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>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:39:50 -0500 (EST)
>From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>

>  I'm positing someone's 
>using a stolen credit card number. [...] If I'm a merchant, I'm 
>going to really want (if I know it's possible) to ship only to what's 
>been "the address on the card" (or, in reality, in the database under the 
>card's number) so that it's harder (not impossible, harder) for people to 
>defraud me.

I'm not sure that's the reason, but there are merchants who insist on
shipping to the card's billing address.  This happens to me when I'm using
a credit card by phone, so the merchant has no signature on file.  For lack
of that proof that I'm me (as opposed to some inmate in a local prison
(actual case I heard about)), if they ship goods to the same address that
writes the actual check for the goods, there's added safety.

For a world with my non-certificates, this is achieved by a pair of
attribute statements:


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Signing-Key-ID: bc2cb00144f223498fcc074eabb821d0
Signed-Key-ID: e05c601c4ec4af3aeb54a53171ed65da
Meaning: checking-account: 116 94265, First Security Bank

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[...]   signature with First Security Bank's key (bc2cb0...)
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Signing-Key-ID: e05c601c4ec4af3aeb54a53171ed65da
Meaning: I receive packages (especially UPS and FedEx) at:
	Carl Ellison
	c/o Trusted Information Systems
	3060 Washington Road
	Glenwood MD 21738
	(301) 854-6889

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[...]   signature with my key (e05c60...)
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The first gives the necessary hook for the merchant to establish that key
e05c6... has money to spend, if the merchant feels the need to check.  The
second establishes a shipping address for that key.

Note that the word "I" in the second attribute statement means "the person
who knows how to make the attached signature with key (e05c60...)"  rather
than "Carl Ellison" (although, in this case, they're the same).

The shipping address could be anonymous:

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Signing-Key-ID: e05c601c4ec4af3aeb54a53171ed65da
Meaning: I receive USPS packages at:
	P.O. Box 360
	Glenwood MD 21738

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[...]   signature with my key (e05c60...)
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 - Carl

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|Carl M. Ellison      cme@tis.com    http://www.clark.net/pub/cme	   |
|Trusted Information Systems, Inc.   http://www.tis.com/                   |
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|Glenwood MD  21738         Tel:(301)854-6889      FAX:(301)854-5363       |
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BTW -- I don't have a PO Box at Glenwood.  (cme)