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Re: How much for a DoD X.509 certificate?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Saylor)
Fri Aug 12 11:57:41 2005
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:21:52 -0400
From: John Saylor <johns@worldwinner.com>
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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hi
> Peter Gutmann wrote:
> > http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0305/210558.html
> > http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0105/200474.html
( 05.08.11 12:55 -0600 ) Anne & Lynn Wheeler:
> one might claim that part of this is the lingering affinity to offline
> credentials ... when most really secure operations have gone to online
> and realtime operations ...
as i understand it, the problem here was that credentials were issued by
an untrustworthy agent. you can have this scenario both online and off.
how does being online solve the problem of a compromised issuing
authority?
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