"Hardeep Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is nothing that can prove who you say you are. State provided ID > cards only prove that you were able to convince the system that you > have a specific name.
For individuals I think that too much importance is placed on identity based on name. For companies it is different, it is useful to know that the email/web site etc that purports to be from example.com is actually from the company Example Ltd. For individuals, it is much more useful to treat the certificate/gpg key as identity so that it can be said (as long as the sender is careful with not allowing others access to the private key) that the email signed by John Doe's key/certificate is from the same person calling himself John Doe that you have previously received email. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
