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In article <6069@transfer.stratus.com> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
>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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Lost Key alert:

It has come to our attention that our private key has been
lost. Please stop using the old public key at once and use this
new key instead "&*(413nmlfs09uln1143".

CEO of IBM

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Can I now transfer some money?



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