[43553] in Cypherpunks
Re: SA: Confidential Communication on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael shiplett)
Fri Nov 17 11:36:07 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 17 Nov 1995 01:10:47 -0600.
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From: michael shiplett <walrus@ans.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:27:57 -0500
"ao" == Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> writes:
ao> On the December issue of Scientific American there is an article
ao> by Thomas Beth, "Confidential Communication on the Internet".
ao> Lite on the technical side but good reading anyway.
This seemed to be a duplication of an X.509 certificate hierarchy:
``Hey, I don't know who you are but you have a seals which go back to
a CA I trust.'' In this respect the information seemed unworthy of an
article in SA.
Perhaps I did not read the article closely enough?
michael
