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Re: PGP, Inc.
They claim to make an effort that the email address is unique, and
that Verisign!!'s [email protected] will only be issued once.
Adam
E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
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| From: IN%"[email protected]" 9-MAY-1996 23:02:01.67
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| >At 19:37 5/9/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
| >> I can see some fascinating legal questions with what, exactly, a
| >>VeriSign certificate obligates the company for. Digital signature laws should
| >>get interesting - any application of this to the Utah one?
|
| >VeriSign is going to offer four levels of certs. The first requires only
| >uniqueness. For the other three levels, VeriSign will require more and
| >better assurances of the correctness of True Name stated on the cert. I
| >don't know what form these assurances are supposed to take.
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| The first level, in other words, is less of a certification than a PGP
| key with self-signature and signature from one other person. It doesn't have
| _any_ effort to verify that the email address stated on it is the actual email
| address of that nym. Or am I misinterpreting you?
| -Allen
|
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