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Article #714Re: Re(2): CommerceNet
From: Ronald F. Guilmette
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 07:52
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 07:52
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In article <CpIsFG.3pJ@nbn.com> booker@next.sdsc.edu (Booker C. Bense ) writes: >... The real limitation is the "Trusted Third Party", every >scheme that I am currently aware of requires this. Who should we >trust? Clipper? The FBI? The PostOffice? Who should be the "keeper >of the keys"? Who are you willing to trust the entire balance of your >various banking accounts to.....? That an easy one... Somebody with deeper pockets than me. (Of course I'd want a contract of some kind by which I could hold them financially liable in case something goes awry.) And by the way, why isn't either NIST or the FCC the most obvious choices to the ``keepers of the keys''. (Actually, I think NIST would be the right place. The FCC has enough other things to do.) Anyway, somewhere within the department of commerce seems right. -- -- Ron Guilmette, Sunnyvale, CA ---------- RG Consulting ------------------- ---- domain addr: rfg@netcom.com ----------- Purveyors of Compiler Test ---- ---- uucp addr: ...!uunet!netcom!rfg ------- Suites and Bullet-Proof Shoes -
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7111,5687f90f63ab470a X-Google-Attributes: gidf7111,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-20 00:52:39 PST Newsgroups: ba.smartvalley Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!biosci!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rfg From: rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) Subject: Re: Re(2): CommerceNet Message-ID: <rfgCq3CJr.1nJ@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CpD9rx.D9w@nbn.com> <2qhds8$i9l@smart1.svi.org> <CpIsFG.3pJ@nbn.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 07:52:39 GMT Lines: 22