[Cryptography] IDs and licenses, not Possible reason why password usage rules

[Richard Clayton]

In message <CC0B3449-8812-41FF-A377-2DE060354D5C at lrw.com>, Jerry
Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes

>The reason goes all the way back to 1086, 
>    when King William the Conqueror ordered the "Great Survey" to 
>    determine what nobles controlled what land all over England.  
>    (Rough approximation.)  The emphasis was on a small number of 
>    nobles, not the land itself, since the purpose was to determine 
>    what they each owed William.  And ... that's the way real estate 
>    recording has been done in England to this day. 

no ... the system changed in 1925 ... and now about 88% of all land has
changed hands at least once since then, so the registration matters and
all those old title deeds can now be just framed (or binned!)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_land_law

BTW: (since this is a crypto list) the last time the statute was updated
in 2002 it envisaged "e-conveyancing" ... but this turned out to be
(after many years of attempts) impractical in the real world because of
the difficulty of distributing and controlling keys which would control
multi-million pound transactions

-- 
richard                                                   Richard Clayton

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary 
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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