Digital Signing (Beat The Dead Horse) was Re: Free Software for m$

[Bob Holtzman]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, der.hans wrote:

> Am 25. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Randy Kaelber so:
> 
> > Lather, rinse, repeat.  This is why key signing parties are good (bring
> > along a photo ID!).  Everyone there can sign everyone's keys, and when
> 
> No. Voltage Spike already hit on this problem. Photo IDs only verify who the
> gov't thinks you are ( presuming it's not a forged document ). 

Offhand I can't think of any form of ID where this isn't true at some 
level.

> I don't care who the gov't thinks you are. Totally irrelevant. I want to 
> verify that whoever you are, the mail I'm getting that claims to be from 
> you really is from you.

How do you propose to do this?

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 ......check the price of the beer!"