🚀 go-pugleaf

cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
: In article <1992Aug28.140721.599@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
: > O.K., I'm IBM.  Our key is:
: >
: >	begin bigblue.key
: >	;:;:;:;;ABB<<DDDHEHHEUUUU
: >	end
: >
: >
: >Now, can I withdraw some money from our account?
: 
: No problem.
: 
: Your account is named by your public key -- not by some silly collection
: of letters, such as "IBM".

Don't be silly, we have no public key accounts just yet - I'm
delivering you the VERY FIRST KEY FOR IBM.

: 
: The money in the account all came from the person who knew the factorization
: of that RSA key -- so the person who knows the factorization is allowed
: to take it out.

It's IBMs account.  The money in the account came from IBM, there 
are no public key accounts yet.

What I'm trying to show you is that you will need some 
proof that I represent IBM (I don't :-)  *before* you will 
accept my key and set up my/our "RSA account".  The
original poster was saying that unidentified keys
are acceptable for groups - they're not, though they
may be alright for anonymous posting type applications.

IBM probably hasn't that much money anymore, in any case :-)

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