- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:53:48 +0900 (JST)
- To: borka@e5.ijs.si (Borka Jerman-Blazic)
- Cc: mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, Lueko.Willms@t-online.de, borka@e5.ijs.si, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, iab-charsets@bunyip.com
> It was an attempt but not for the current needs in a cyberworld e.g > do you imagine that people will use for all service the simple > (e.g "ASCII" formated) version of their name even in > certificates, digital signiture or in electronic commerce (credit > cards are issued by local banks and names are properly spelled? > How much you will trust to a digital signiture with wrong > spelling of the issuer name?? Using ISO 8859 with > code extension techniques make this very very cumbersome! I'm afraid you misunderstand a digital signature is a pictorial signature. It is not. What is important is just a public key, just a number, of the issuer, which will be reliably distributed through ASCII-only secure DNS. Masataka Ohta --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
Received on Thursday, 13 June 1996 04:04:01 UTC