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Re: Fixing SSL (was Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Mar 15 16:50:10 2008

Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:33:15 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Philipp_G=FChring?= <pg@futureware.at>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <200802111428.30934.pg@futureware.at>

Philipp Gühring wrote:
> I had the feeling that Microsoft wants to abandon the usage of client 
> certificates completely, and move the people to CardSpace instead.
> But how do you sign your emails with CardSpace? CardSpace only does the 
> realtime authentication part of the market ...

It's not rocket science. You have a public/private keypair. You can sign 
emails. For example, import your cardspace key into PGP.



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