ID "theft" -- so what?

[James A. Donald]

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> > This is yet more reason why I propose that you 
> > authorize transactions with public keys and not with 
> > the use of identity information.

Dan Kaminsky <dan at doxpara.com>
> It's 2005, PKI doesn't work, the horse is dead.

The PKI that was designed to serve no very useful 
function other than make everyone in the world pay $100 
a year to Verisign is dead.

Yet the technology is potent, and the problems of 
identity and authenticity are severe.  We shall, bye and 
bye, see reliance on public keys.  Other things just 
don't work.

At present, the overwhelming majority of money transfers 
take place over non internet networks, and rely on non 
internet identity.  Inevitably, this will change, and 
that change will both necessitate, and be based on, the 
use of public key cryptography. 

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         James A. Donald
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