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Re: SOI: identity protection and DOS



On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Michael Thomas wrote:
>    I'm 99% certain we've entered a rathole here because
>    we got here by way of saying that public key certs
>    might contain private information on them. I still
>    find that a highly dubious proposition...

I think you're assuming that public-key certs are automatically public
information, which is not necessarily true.  People can and do keep
"public" keys quite confidential, using them very selectively.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net



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