[47001] in Cypherpunks
Re: Certificates: limiting your liability with reuse limitations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal)
Thu Jan 11 20:32:53 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:07:14 -0800
From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
You write:
>Suppose I am a CA. I am worried that by issuing a certificate with a
>lifespan of more than 2 milliseconds I am opening myself up to unlimited
>liability if for some reason, despite my best efforts, I issue an
>erroneous certificate.
How do notaries public get around this liability problem? It seems to me
that the checking done for a certificate might be similar to the checking
done by a notary - a glance at a driver's license, say. Are they subject
to liability if they are fooled by fake ID?
Hal
