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

[Ian D. Goodyer]

At 03:57 PM 17-08-98 -0400, you wrote:
>Colleagues 
>
>Well at last I see it; the need for "approved" CAs for users of PGP.  So
>the government were right all along........
>
>Nigel Hickson 


Nigel,  thanks for participating.  Personally I do not see a problem with
the government (that already issue my driving licence, birth certificate
and passport) from authenticating an electronic certificate (an electronic
passport if you like). For that matter I do not see a problem with a
government approved third party certifying my key.  The trouble I have is
when they want to give me a copy of a key that they have produced or get a
copy of the one that I have produced.   That seems to be the major problem.
 Maybe you could explain why that is necessary or even desirable.

thanks

     ian