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Re: browser vendors and CAs agreeing on high-assurance certificat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Sun Dec 18 18:42:25 2005
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:16:06 +1300
From: Sidney Markowitz <sidney@sidney.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 12/19/05 9:54 AM, leichter_jerrold@emc.com wrote:
> Imagine a "E-commerce" front end: Instead of little-guy.com buying a cert
> which you are supposed to trust, they go to e-commerce.com and pay for a
> link. Everyone trusts e-commerce.com and its cert. e-commerce provides a
> guarantee of some sort to customers who go through it, and charges the
> little guys for the right.
Do you mean like Amazon Marketplace and Amazon zShops? I think it's been
done already:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1161232/103-4791981-1614232
-- Sidney Markowitz
http://www.sidney.com
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