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Re: USENIX PGP key signing service
At 04:09 PM 5/31/96 -0700, Wei Dai wrote:
>The example
>you gave in the URL was an English paragraph meant to be read by a person.
>I think in general that would not be as useful as a short sentence in some
>cannonical form, such as "If you believe a, then you should believe b."
I think that is a valuable lesson. In a way, that may be what
Blaze/Feigenbaum/Lacy was trying to do -- only they insisted on having the
Meaning be read by a computer and executed by it.
>
>Hmm. If you have (member ID) -> (key) and the key owner himself can issue
>(key) -> (e-mail), why do you need (member ID) -> (e-mail)?
You don't need it. However, the suggestion by Neal on which I was
elaborating was intended to give that mapping. [Actually, it may have been
intended to do the mapping
(person) -> (key)
where the name for the (person) was an e-mail address, but you'd have to ask
him.]
- Carl
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