playing with cryptography...

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Fri May 23 21:45:30 CEST 2008


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Graham Murray escribió:

> For individuals I think that too much importance is placed on identity
> based on name. For companies it is different, it is useful to know that
> the email/web site etc that purports to be from example.com is actually
> from the company Example Ltd. For individuals, it is much more useful to
> treat the certificate/gpg key as identity so that it can be said (as
> long as the sender is careful with not allowing others access to the
> private key) that the email signed by John Doe's key/certificate is from
> the same person calling himself John Doe that you have previously
> received email. 

  Right, with many people using nicknames instead of real names, on
Internet, I don't really care about their true identity, unless I am
buying something from them...
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