[83244] in Cypherpunks
Re: Verisign gets export approval
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jul 17 13:16:53 1997
In-Reply-To: <199707171339.JAA19638@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:16:24 -0700
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: stewarts@ix.netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
It seems to me that someone who has a one year export approved Verisign
cert should use it to authenticate a new top-level CA cert which they pass
to their customers. Cut Verisign and their nosy/noisy partner out of the
loop.
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