trust is outsourced all the time in the non-cryptographic world

unless you do not have a bank account


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2014-04-29 05:58, Ryan Carboni wrote:
>
>>     We happen to live on a planet where most users are ordinary users.
>>
>>
>> given the extent of phishing, it's probably best we outsource trust to
>> centralized authorities.
>> Although it should be easier establishing your own certificate authority.
>>
>
> Cannot outsource trust  Ann usually knows more about Bob than a distant
> authority does.  A certificate authority does not certify that Bob is
> trustworthy, but that his name is Bob.
>
> In practice, however we find that diverse entities have very similar
> names, and a single entity may have many names.
>
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