playing with cryptography...

Ramon Loureiro ramon.loureiro at upf.edu
Tue May 20 23:21:57 CEST 2008


John W. Moore III escribió:
> Bill Royds wrote:
> 
>> Your Thawte certificate  reads Signed (ramon.loureiro at upf.edu)
> 
> This also doesn't mean that You really are Ramon Loureiro, since the
> Certificate doesn't carry Your _Name_ indicating that Other People have
> eyeballed You + Government Issued Documentation affirming that You
> actually are who You say You are.  To accomplish this You will need to
> accomplish several Face-to-Face meetings with other Thawte Assurers who
> 'vouch' [by granting points through Thawte] that they have confirmed
> Your Identity.
> 
> I only know that I have an x.509 Key that may be used to Send an S/MIME
> Encrypted to the Email Address on the Certificate. :(  Basically, I
> still have to 'trust' You at face value.  All that is certain is that
> Thawte has confirmed Somebody controls this particular email Address. :-\
> 

I've got a personal THAWTE Certificate!
It carries my name. I wonder if it will be enought to trust me on the
GPG model...

___
ramon loureiro



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