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Re: some more certificate usages.

To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
Subject: Re: some more certificate usages.
From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:13:31 -0500
Cc: spki@c2.org
Sender: owner-spki@c2.org

At 20:01 2/27/96, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>"I am the legitimate receiver of mail sent to this rfc822 email
>address.  [this might need to be signed by a key which itself had been
>certified by the appropriate "DNS name owner" certificate]."

I don't understand what purpose this serves, unless you're talking about
access permission to a POP server.  In that latter case, I would expect
the ISP to issue the certificate.

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