Weaving a PGP Web of trust..proposal? comments? (fwd)

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Nigel Hickson <nigelhickson@compuserve.com>

> Well at last I see it; the need for "approved" CAs for users of PGP.  So
> the government were right all along........

Well lessee; the infrastructure described has existed for donkey's years...

How many people have chosen to use it for pgp ?

How many people have chosen to use it for paper mail, for instance when
replying to classified ads in the paper ?  Hmmm.

And for further marks why was the writer aiming to avoid government-backed
CAs in the first place ?

Hand in your answers before turning to 
http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/SECURITY/ttp.html

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