19 Feb
2002
19 Feb
'02
9:06 a.m.
On 2/18/02 7:21 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" jra@baylink.com wrote:
All it takes is code. Volunteering? (grin)
Because there's not a sufficiently strong method of authenticating that the person trying to change the address is actually the *user*?
So we get back to the core of the problem: until we get true authenticatable e-mail addresses, everything we do is fingers in the dike. And even then, I've had some long, technical dialogs with my elder gods of e-mail that have convinced me that even a fully-implemented public-key auth system won't solve all of the problems...
And I have only ten fingers, and ten toes.
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Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui@plaidworks.com -- http://www.chuqui.com/)
Will Geek for hardware.
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you?