[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 01:29 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:48:05PM -0400, Dave Grey wrote:
> > 
> > On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:44 PM, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> > >
> > >While I appreciate the problems Matthew is going through, this is a
> > >complex issue, and one that has plagued the net for a long time.   
> > >How do
> > >you authenticate random people on the internet as 1. unique and 2. as
> > >themselves.
> > 
> > Could x.509 help here?  It is a lot of added overhead, for sure, but  
> > if some one were to create an asterisk-community CA and implement a  
> > "web of trust" model... *shrug*.
> 
> you mean: send an email message at registration time and require that
> the reply is signed by a "respectable" PGP key?
> 

What stops someone from getting multiple certificates?  You are back to
the original problem how do you authenticate people in a
pseudo-anonymous network.


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