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Re: Has RSADSI Lost their mind?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Mon Jul 3 17:47:40 2000
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:25:53 -0400
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
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To: Dave Del Torto <ddt@openpgp.net>
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Dave Del Torto wrote:
> An amusing if merely semi-related followup...
>
> Network Solutions, Inc. (recently acquired by VeriSign for umpteen
> hundreds of Billions of $, and a now major user of RSADSI's "*-SAFE"
> toolkits... hmmm...) announced on 29 June that (as of 07 July, plenty
> of lead time for all you multidomain admins, right?) they're removing
> virtually all handle and domain security, because: "Security for our
> customers has always been a top priority at Network Solutions."
Hmm. That isn't how I read their announcement. Specifically the paragraph:
> With our upcoming upgrade, customers who have not yet
> selected a security option will be migrated to "Mail-From"
> security. Customers who currently use the "Mail-From After
> Update" Guardian authentication method will now have to
> respond to an e-mail security check before the requested
> changes will be implemented. Customers who currently use
> existing Guardian security options do not have to make
> any changes at all.
>
Implies that if you are already using PGP as your security scheme, nothing
will change. I believe the phrase "no yet selected" is the crucial issue here.
Am I wrong?
-Jeff
