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Re: Lie in X.BlaBla... (was re: [Fwd: FW: WA makes forging/misrepresenting to get/use a cert a felony])
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Thu May 31 11:28:42 2001
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
"Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:22:03 +0800
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Besides, it would be idiotic to grant access to information or authorization
for a transaction to someone, just because he or she has presented a "public
key certificate": authentication protocols require possession of the private
key. Those legislators just don't know what they are talking about.
Scary.
Enzo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Lie in X.BlaBla... (was re: [Fwd: FW: WA makes
forging/misrepresenting to get/use a cert a felony])
> > > (3) A person shall not knowingly present a public key certificate
> > > for which the person is not the owner of the corresponding
> > > private key in order to obtain unauthorized access to information
> > > or engage in an unauthorized transaction.
>
> Hooo-wee! Don't you normally present a whole chain of certificates,
> the private keys of most of which you are not the owner?
>
> You might as well make it a crime to enter a false username.
>
>
>
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