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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Jun 6 14:43:27 2003

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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:59:40 -0700
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@lne.com

At 7:40 AM -0700 6/4/03, Eric Murray wrote:
>Note that there isn't a real running global PKI using SPKI
>or PGP either.

I'm not sure SPKI was ever meant to be a global PKI.  It was more meant to
authorization in a "verifier-centric" system.

Cheers - Bill


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