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RE: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-25 12:50:40

        How does Jon know that the dollar Jon received from Mike is a
dollar?

        A dollar has specifications that tell you it's a dollar (type of
paper, ink, micro printing, etc)

I don't think the dollar analogy is all that useful.  A dollar is backed up
by people with guns, who hunt down and punish counterfeiters, which means
that ordinary people don't have to know how to validate a dollar bill,
because the incidence of forgery is low.

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|John Stracke                    |Principal Engineer           |
|jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com   |Incentive Systems, Inc.      |
|http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own.      |
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|Moore                                                         |
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