[cap-talk] the value of identity

[John Carlson]

Assume that most people in your community are tech savvy enough to use  
the web.  It has to be simple and practically free to obtain and use  
the public/private key pair--that is, built into the hardware/ 
operating system/web.

Assume that some people in your community are tech savvy enough to  
obtain and use more than one public/private key pair...say on a  
different computer than they might normally use.

Assume that the community is open to everyone on the internet.

I understand that many IM systems now have identity verification.   
What happens to that when I reformat my disk to install a new  
operating system?  Can I retrieve my identity from my OS vendor or my  
internet provider from over the web?  How much do I have to pay to do  
this?

John
On Jan 7, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Karp, Alan H wrote:

> John Carlson wrote:
>>
>> I mean secure as in the ability to have your vote counted once and
>> only once.
>>
> What part of that problem can't you solve with a public/private key  
> pair?
>
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