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Re: Summary Trust x Delegation
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At 01:02 PM 5/28/97 +0200, Stef Hoeben wrote:
>But the problem remains that the PKI's at the moment are not usable
>(special purpuse stuff like SET, ... excluded) BECAUSE you can't
>trust the certficates. The above looks to me like a playing with
>words which goes around this problem. See below for an example.
AHA!
Thank you, Stef! I believe I now know the magic words for this debate.
The crypto world, and especially the X.509 world, have been worried forever
about wheher you can trust the certificates.
We, in SPKI, assume you can trust the certificates (riding on the shoulders of
the X.509 work) and now focus on the question of what you can trust about the
certified key.
These are two different issues entirely.
- Carl
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