Re: Call for proposals

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

> 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