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P.S. Re: legal question about certs



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I wrote:
>Since neither the "True Name" nor the key means anything to me by itself, I 
>have to track down the human in some other way (probably a cert: e.g., a 
SDSI 
>name cert, a donation cert, a subpoena cert, ...) and all three of those are 

>more meaningful and more secure than a "traditional" ID cert mapping from a 
>global (X.500) name to a key.

By "more secure" I don't mean to impugn the quality of X.509.  That link is 
just fine.  It's the link between True Name and 3D space of humans which is 
insecure -- because a global name space is so large that it becomes useless 
for humans trying to make decisions -- and it's only for human consumption 
that one uses names in the first place.  If we have computers making 
decisions, then public keys win hands down as names for the keyholders.


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