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Re: Senator, your public key please?
At 10:44 AM 5/18/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>What if, for example, Sen. Leahy _did_ end up in the web of trust for Aryan
>Nation? Even if he never intended it, this could have some severe PR
>repercussions.
It could happen today. All anyone has to do is down-load his key, sign it,
and then up-load it again.
This is exactly analogous to slanderous attack on someone's reputation. As
soon as people realize that the mere fact that a key has a signature does
not mean that the key-owner solicited the signature, the problem goes away.
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