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Re: Thawte "SuperCerts"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Thu Dec 2 16:13:06 1999

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:17:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Salz <salzr@certco.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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> unless, of course, there's a built-in list of trusted CAs.

That's exactly what it is.  Patching the list is apparently pretty
easy for Netscape Navigator -- instructions are included in the
mod_ssl Apache patch -- but it's not currently known what needs to
be done to make IE add a trusted CA.

	/r$



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