• A potential possibility of improvement of PKI for personal communicatio

    From Mok-Kong Shen@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 16 11:31:13 2015
    In countries like Germany each citizen has an identity card that is
    issued by the registration authority. Since the identity of a person is
    thus in a sense created by that authority, why not let it also to
    directly certify the public key of any citizen who desires to employ
    asymmetric encryption? I mean the person would on that occasion have
    his identity be once again checked by the authority (presumably much
    better, certainly not worse than, any common CAs) and then have his
    public key be entered (for a moderate charge) into a list of public
    keys that is freely accessible to the public at computer terminals of
    all offices of the registration authority. This way, the issue of trust
    on the common CAs (or their equivalents) could be avoided.

    M. K. Shen

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