- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 11:34:40 +0100
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Kee Hinckley writes: | I'm confused. Are you advocating a central registry of all browser owners, | where the browser checks that registry, asks me to match the password, and | then lets me send mail? I think a public key system would be simpler, | safer and more private. Only centralised in a local sense :-) e.g. students in a public access lab being required to supply a valid user name and password to a local "authentication server" before the browser will allow them to send mail or post news. The authenticated user name would be stamped on any messages they sent, say as an X- header At the moment it's ridiculously easy for casual WWW users to forge messages. This is just a quick hack which would make it a bit more difficult. Perhaps too difficult for the majority. Sure, public key would be nice too, but more effort is involved! Martin
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