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Re: comments on client auth

To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: comments on client auth
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:44:13 -0400
Cc: spki@c2.org, mark_feldman@tis.com
Sender: owner-spki@c2.org

At 09:48 AM 6/14/96 -0700, Hal wrote:

>Putting the root in the code is about as safe as you're going to get.  If
>the root can be tampered with, the code could be tampered with as well.

That's true.  My advocacy of the TIS/MOSS style comes from the ability of an
individual user to define as many roots as he wishes -- freeing us from a
single hierarchy.



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