On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:28 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > No I don't see, if I can produce an arbitrariy message, signed by the > > key associated with an ID, be it email, Drivers License, Passport, > > fingerprint whatever, than I am that persona or I have stolen their key, > > or I have broken the algorithim. Stolen keys are a problem nomatter > > what. > > I probably missed part of your point, so let me add a few things, first, > do you know how easy it is to get a fake ID? Secondly, when I have been > dealing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for years, exchanging email and code, how > much to I care if the name on their birth certificate is Georgi Georgiev > or Frank N Stein, or Judy Garland. The person I know is [EMAIL PROTECTED], > not Georgi Georgiev.
That is the reason for asking for *two* forms of identification. Also, apparently, since you've been dealing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for years, then I must be him, no? Well, my email address above says that I am him, so how could I not be? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
