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In article <1992Aug26.211746.2838@saaf.se> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
>And during such circumstances (we've never met and never will meet, I'm not
>interested in any positive ID like genes, fingerprints etc, and all I know
>is that you say that you've signed a messages and haven't revealed to anyone
>else how to sign it in the same way), who needs RSA signatures?

Let's suppose I'm a programmer working from home.  My employer never meets
me.  I applied for the job over the net.  I do my work over the net.  I get
paid by electronic funds transfer.  The payment goes to a bank account
identified by my RSA key.  I write checks on it by signing them with my RSA
key.

I could be a Martian.  I could be a dozen people working as a group.  The
employer doesn't know and doesn't care.  The company gets work done and
pays for it.  Those payments go to the unit(s) doing the work.

>  They would really say no more than your name and email address.

People keep getting hung up on "me" being a person with a physical body and
a name.  I suppose that's understandable, since we're all people here (or
are we? :-).

It's not that I'm an anonymity freak.  I'm just trying to keep the system
simple.  To me, things like the string "Carl Ellison" are unnecessary -- at
least for exchanges like doing work, getting paid, conversing by e-mail,
posting on USENET, ....  It's more easily remembered than an RSA key -- but
it's not guaranteed unique like an RSA key.  In fact, my father had the
same name.  So did my grandfather.