Re: Public key crypto

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Rick H. Wesson wrote:

> IMHO the IAHC and CORE should not premote the use of technology that
> would be illegal for a registry and/or an individual to use. The technology
> used to run the CORE db shold not incur any legal issues for its use.

This is why I proposed that the keys be generated by CORE. They would then
be transmitted direct to the user who can include them in a transaction to
validate that they have indeed authorized the transaction. This does not
require the user to run any crypto software of any type and it does not
require the user to exchange any encrypted information. The key is not
encrypted information, merely a unique number that is generated with a
cryptographic quality algorithm.

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