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  • From: Peter Todd <retep AT penguinpowered.com>
  • To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Naming via SDSI
  • Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:37:55 -0500

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:09:25PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> My main issue with total subjectivity is that it requires that you pass
> around fat references (keys) all the time. So I can't tell someone "Check
> out megatokyo.com." I have to say "check out
> asjldkq9u4q8412093ajla0912l". It helps if you have a computer-mediated
> communication environment to do translation for you, but it sucks for
> voice and written. I know the last time I wrote down my PGP fingerprint I
> made to copying errors. If it was a different kind of key, such errors
^

We already make enough errors just writing normal text. :)

Whats so special about PGP figerprints BTW that allows them to
tolerate errors?

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