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Article #831Re: User authentication
From: Carl Ellison
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 18:07
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 18:07
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In article <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes: >: 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. If there are no public key accounts, then you can't be delivering a public key. To deliver the public key, you need a bank willing to take public keys. That means there are accounts. Once there are accounts, any deposits into them will have to be made with the public key. Such accounts have nothing to do with any non-public-key accounts which any corporation might or might not have in any other bank. And, as I said, once you have a public key account, I don't care what pronounceable name you use. I (the bank) will ignore it. The only thing which matters is the public key.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!ellisun.sw.stratus.com!cme From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: User authentication Message-ID: <6069@transfer.stratus.com> Date: 1 Sep 92 18:07:00 GMT References: <6002@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Aug31.135512.16204@sniap.mchp.sni.de> Sender: usenet@transfer.stratus.com Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering Lines: 19