RE: [Asrg] PKI and Filters

At 6:42 PM -0700 3/8/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>commercial cert.  No user will spent $50 to buy a cert for a personal
>mailbox, which is why no one has a Verisign personal cert.  Cert

I was.  I tried to go from a their free one to a paid one.  But 
Versign told me I had to change my name :-)

>At 1:15 PM -0400 5/10/97, ID-Center wrote:
>  >Dear Kee,
>  >
>  >As an evaluation ID, Revocation/Replacement is not available.  To obtain
>  >another ID, simply return to the enrollment pages @
>  >http://digitalid.verisign.com/brw_pick.htm   Since our systems will  not
>  >process duplicate orders, please add a digit such as the number "1" to the
>  >end of your last name, to complete a new enrollment.
>  >
>  >Thank you for using VeriSign's Digital ID Services.
>  >
>  >Customer Support
>  >VeriSign Digital ID Center

Seriously though, you are correct.  The cost of true verification is 
higher than the cost anyone is going to be willing to pay for it--the 
benefits aren't big enough.

On the other hand, the cost of verifying that you really own the 
email address you say you own is definitely manageable (and could 
even be done without human intervention).
-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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