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Re: SDSI DNS namespace



On Wed, 1 May 1996, Hal wrote:

> example, how would a VeriSign certificate binding a key for Ron
> Rivest to rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu be written?  Could it just be
> ( ref: VeriSign!! rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu )?

If I read 5.2 right, the whole address is supposed to be 
evaluated as a locan name first, so the name would be evaluated in 
Verisign's naming context. Local names seem to be contextually defined by 
each principal- 
I'm not sure how the function for lookup-value(P) is obtained




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