Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys
Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com> Mon, 14 June 1999 11:51 UTC
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:35:17 +0100
To: pgut001@cs.aucKland.ac.nz
From: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys
Cc: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil, ietf-pkix@imc.org, ietf-smime@imc.org
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At 05:57 12/06/99, Peter Gutmann wrote: >Since the distribution now includes new people (ietf-smime) I'll give the >Readers Digest version of what I said in an earlier message: Thanks for that. >[...] and since I'm pretty picky about >doing things the way PKIX requires the only way they could get self-issued >certs to work is to make everyone a CA. Time for a dumb question, if I may. What is the problem with this? Unless I'm missing something (likely :-), being a CA is no big deal security-wise. I don't see any special trust conferred on that basis alone. #g
- Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys David P. Kemp
- Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys Peter Gutmann
- Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys Graham Klyne
- Re: Certificate requests for encryption keys Dan Geer