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Re: End of the line for Ireland's dotcom star
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Saylor)
Tue Sep 23 16:12:15 2003
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:07:04 -0400
From: John Saylor <johns@worldwinner.com>
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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hi
( 03.09.23 13:45 -0600 ) Anne & Lynn Wheeler:
> is it still possible to show that there has been long term,
> continuous, non-stop, highest security custodial care of the GTE
> cybertrust CA private keys. If there hasn't ... would anybody even
> know?
i worked at cybertrust/baltimore up until about 3 years ago [like rats
leaving a sinking ship ...].and, as you might imagine i have no idea
what's going on with those keys.
there was a big institutional fight over how much money to spend on
putting those keys in the browsers, now pretty much meaningless. the
keys were always well watched, at least while i was there. i had to work
in that room a few times, and i was watched then too. the guy who ran
the facility [like a tight ship] left shortly after i did, so i have
even less faith in the integrity of those certs now than i would have
otherwise because his replacement probably couldn't even tell you what
TCP stands for.
but as you imply, all bets are off now.
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