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Re: Property RIghts in Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren J Moffat)
Thu Feb 12 14:42:58 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:26:40 +0000
From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
In-reply-to: <873aejtu4p.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
I'm can if I squint enough see some cases where the protections of
copyright/license and trademark might come into the needs of certs.
1. You don't really want a derivative work - eg the same non crypto
elements in a new cert :-)
2. Some of the non crypto elements maybe trademarked names, eg the
subject and/or issuer.
3. A CA cert really is only issued as a Trust Anchor and shouldn't
really be used for anything else.
However I don't really see a need to attempt to assert this in legal (or
more likely attempted legal) terms. Given they are all implicit in the
meaning of what a CA cert is and why it exists.
--
Darren J Moffat
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