Policy-Discussion

[Sven Anderson <sven AT anderson.de>]

Duane, 16.01.2007 21:28:
> Sven Anderson wrote:
> 
>> But for what do you need a higher uniqueness than that of the data in
>> certificates?
> 
> Because the certificate identifies an entity, not the other way round,
> since an entity can have multiple certificates for multiple things.

Still don't see the causal nexus here. Why does the entity have to be more
unique than all the certificates, that will ever identify it. Or are there
certificates with date of birth planned?

Interesting incident: Yesterday I almost convinced a friend to register at
CAcert. When he was asked for his date of birth, he asked me, "why the
hell do they need my date of birth?" I told him about our discussion here,
and although I have my own doubts, I tried to use your arguments, as I
wanted him to support CAcert. But he was not convinced and stopped at this
point. What a pity.


Cheers,

Sven

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