🚀 go-pugleaf

dla@raven (Don Alvarez) writes:
: In article <1992Aug27.131849.13130@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
: >
: >my site knows me well.  Your site knows you.
: >
: >Therefore your site can certify (sign) your public key.  Mine can
: >certify mine.  ALL THAT IS REQUIRED NOW IS FOR OUR SITES TO CROSS 
: >CERTIFY EACH OTHER'S KEYS.                        [emphasis added]
: 
: And _that_ is the trick.  Sure, islands of trust do exist, but unless
: that island of trust is large enough to encompass both your site and
: mine, then, then neither you nor I can trust the identity of each
: other's *site*.  All you have done is pass the certification problem up
: one level from the individual to the site.  All the same fundamental
: issues occur at the site level as occur at the individual level.

Sure, there has to a face-to-face meeting between representatives
of our sites.  I thought I said that in the original post.  Apologies
if I didn't.

Note, though, that if each of our sites has 1000 users, we have saved
a lot of face to face meetings - 999,000-1 ?

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