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Re: TPM coming to Canada

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Fri Apr 4 19:14:00 2003

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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:00:07 -0500
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann),
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com, mctylr@privacy.nb.ca
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200304030158.h331wir04874@medusa01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>

At 01:58 PM 4/3/03 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
...
>A better suggestion for killing it: Write letters strongly encouraging the
>PKI-based method.

*Snork!*  That's perfect.

"...as computer security professionals, we feel that it is our duty to 
advise the legislature of the critical importance of requiring the use of a 
PKI for this system, preferably with multiple root CAs and online 
certificate revocation.  In order to ensure that the CAs function according 
to the will of the legislature, we further recommend that the legislature 
draft the certificate practice statement as part of this law...."

>Peter.

--John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com



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