Re: Authentication, cancels, etc

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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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