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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t.c.jones@att.net)
Sat Jun 7 20:16:56 2003
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From: t.c.jones@att.net
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@lne.com>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
"Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 23:47:16 +0000
my site has one.
ca0.net
..tom
> --
> On 7 Jun 2003 at 19:05, Dave Howe wrote:
> > issuing certs to someone is trivial from both a server and a
> > user endpoint - the user just gets a "click here to request
> > your key" and hits ok on a few dialog boxes; the server
> > simply hosts some pretty off-the-shelf cgi.
> >[...]
> > its surprisingly reliable and easy - particuarly if your end
> > users are just using the MS keystore, which requires them to
> > do no more than double-click the pkcs file and hit "next" a
> > few times.
>
> This sounds more like what I was looking for.
>
> Probably someone has already pointed out the url to this, but
> if they did, I when I looked at it I was snowed under by
> verisign oriented shit, which assumes a large budget and ample
> administrator time for face to face contact with certified
> people, a very small number of clients, some hours of work by
> each client, a manual, user training, etc, and failed to grasp
> it.
>
> Could you point me somewhere that illustates server issued
> certs, certification with zero administrator overhead and small
> end user overhead?
>
> Also, I have many times heard that public key operations were
> surprisingly easy, and have been key administrator for several
> companies, and have unfailingly found that I was the only
> person capable of doing these operations at that company.
>
> --digsig
> James A. Donald
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> v6gZFuZoUgyGH55ME+JoilJSfw5LrufrbWWB454U
> 4FhiB65yyXwp1RgeJrLADfEYBoqz0YAch8fJ0Fisp
>
>
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