[tor-talk] Tor for everyone; introducing Eccentric Authentication

juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 00:05:48 UTC 2016


On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:26:02 +0100
Guido Witmond <guido at witmond.nl> wrote:


> So, to answer your question: people communicate id at site names, the
> computer verifies the uniqness properties to determine the
> corresponding public keys. The requirement to make the relation
> between names and public keys is key. Pun intended.

	Yes, I understand what you want to achieve, but it looks like
	an impossible goal to me. If individuals don't do the key
	exchange themselves, then they will have to 'trust' some
	'third party'...that actually shouldn't be trusted because it 
	can't be trusted.  

> 
> I hope this answers your question.
> 
> Regards, Guido Witmond.
> 



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