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Re: Formal notice given of rearrangement of deck chairs on RMS PKItanic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Oct 7 09:46:46 2010

From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: crawdad@fnal.gov, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Cc: Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com
In-Reply-To: <3CB901DE-F96C-4900-922B-B798E0F21EA3@fnal.gov>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:05:16 +1300

Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov> writes:

>EE = End Entity, but I don't read the first sentence the way Peter did. 

As I mentioned in my previous followup, it's badly worded, but the intent is 
to ban any keys < 2K bits of any kind (currently with evolving weasel-words 
about letting CAs certify them up to 2013 or so if the user begs really hard).

Peter.

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