From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 04:29:14 CDT
In <200110121025.6kp6@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>Brad Templeton wrote:
>> If somebody forges an article in my name,
>> I should be able to cancel it quickly and easily.
>Sign your articles. Then there's
>no need to cancel forgeries later.
But then every Usenet poster worldwide needs a readily-accessible public
key, which is an order of magnitude worse that Brad's idea that every
injecting site needs one, which is iself a couple of orders of magnitude
worse than what we actually want.
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