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Re: Certificate proposal




Scott Brickner writes:
 > [ ... a bunch of stuff I have no quarrel with ... ]
 >
 > Identifying the key with the person is entirely reasonable, if the key
 > is what introduced the person to you (and thus ontologically created
 > the entity).

Right (sez me).

 > If the introduction happens prior to receiving the key,
 > then authentication becomes necessary to avoid MITM.

Maybe I'm not sure what good a "true name" certificate is going to do
me in establishing confidence in a key.  How will I know that the
MITM attack didn't begin with the "true name" registration?

(Note that I continue to insist that I very well might be totally
without clue here, so correct me brutally if applicable.)

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