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Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 19:09:01 -0400
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:57:12AM +0200, yossarian said:
What I wonder - will Verisign have set up CRL servers yet? Remember the IE problem when someone got hold of MS certificates? The MS-fix was blacklisting them locally, the real problem was that there was no revocation servers. Then again, how many concurrent connections would they get if MS sent out a critical update? So - stick to PGP - forget about PKI.
Pardon me if a clue whizzed by while I was working, but I read this as "PKI doesn't have any way to guarantee ad-hoc revocation of a certificate, so stick to PGP, which also doesn't have any way to guarantee ad-hoc revocation of a certificate". -- Shawn McMahon | Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, EIV Consulting | that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any UNIX and Linux | hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure http://www.eiv.com| the survival and the success of liberty. - JFK
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- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Georgi Guninski (May 11)
- RE: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Evans, TJ (BearingPoint) (May 09)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 09)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
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- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 09)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Shawn McMahon (May 11)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 12)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Shawn McMahon (May 12)