It helps me establish who the key is claiming to belong to, and who says so. In a lot of cases, this may be all the level of trust I need. If it's not, at least I have clues about where to look next.
If this agrees with Ellison, that's great, but the portion of his argument that you quoted looked like a big fat straw man to me. He says that one especially brain-dead method of identifying people uniquely - 'Forename Surname' - doesn't work. Well, who'd have thunk it, eh?
I don't see why this means that the whole concept of PKI is flawed. All it means is that people are trying to use it to do things it is not designed to do.
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Date: 2002-06-11 06:27 am (UTC)If this agrees with Ellison, that's great, but the portion of his argument that you quoted looked like a big fat straw man to me. He says that one especially brain-dead method of identifying people uniquely - 'Forename Surname' - doesn't work. Well, who'd have thunk it, eh?
I don't see why this means that the whole concept of PKI is flawed. All it means is that people are trying to use it to do things it is not designed to do.