Lie in X.BlaBla...

[Lynn.Wheeler at firstdata.com]

there may be a slightly different issue ... at least, with regard to one of
early projected applications for certificates which was consumer identity
in retail financial transactions. At least EU has talked about making
retail transactions as anonymous as cash ... which sort of rules out using
consumer identity certificates in such an environment (i.e. while consumer
identity certificates in retail transactions wouldn't be fraud ...
requiring them would appear to be in violation of privacy guidelines &
regulations).

a stop-gap solution in europe as been "relying-party-only" certificates
.... however, it is trivially shown that appending relying-party-only
certificates to an account-based transaction is redundant and superfulous
(i.e. not illegal just not KISS).

random refs:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#31
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn2
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn3
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#privacy





Greg Broiles <gbroiles at well.com>@wasabisystems.com on 06/03/2001 11:00:31
AM

Sent by:  owner-cryptography at wasabisystems.com


To:   jamesd at echeque.com, "Enzo Michelangeli" <em at em.no-ip.com>
cc:   <cryptography at wasabisystems.com>
Subject:  Re: Lie in X.BlaBla...


I don't think the new law is necessary - it's basically a retread of
existing fraud and computer misuse statutes - but I don't think it
criminalizes anything that wasn't criminal before. I haven't spent a lot of
time crawling through Washington's criminal code - nor criminal courts,
where the rubber meets the road - so I don't know if the "felony" status
for this is new, or meaningful, or exemplary - it sounds like overkill, to
my ears, but so does much of what comes out of our federal and state
legislatures so I've stopped thinking that's remarkable.






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