On 11/29/15, Ximin Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/11/15 00:53, Ethan Heilman wrote: >>> No human user thinks in terms of contacting cryptographic identities. >>> [..] >> >> Am I correct in my understanding that .onion addresses work this way? >> > [..] > > (To put it another way, "self-authenticating" is a joke. My GPG fingerprint > is self-authenticating too. Just go talk to 0x1318efac5fbbdbce, it doesn't > matter who that is in real life.... what? no takers?)
It seems reasonable to me that the important part of somebody's identity would be their behavior rather than their body or name. But to use fingerprints as identifiers, you'd need a way for humans to remember and compare them. Some way of hashing data into something memorable but complex enough to be collision-resistant, like a detailed image of a computer-generated human face. I wonder if anybody's done something like that. _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
