Re: Certificate proposal

[Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>]

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>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:40:04 -0700
>From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>

>I don't really care whether the name is called an attribute, a
>distinguished name, or an ooblek.  I just don't see how you're going to
>get along without it.  The fact is, we live in a world populated by
>people and companies and we use names to identify them.  I will grant
>that there are problems with uniqueness but I don't think the solution
>can be to just give up on the whole idea of names since they are so
>messy.  

We're not talking about giving up on names.

You have lots of names for things -- some of them are even nicknames, known
only to you.

For any certification scheme, you also need a unique name.

If you happen to use the public key as that unique name, you have the
proposal we're talking about.  It has an advantage -- that you don't
have to certifiy the binding between the unique name and the key.
That's built in.

 -Carl

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