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Re: use of digital signatures and PKI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Davis)
Thu May 31 22:51:05 2001
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:07:14 -0500
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From: Don Davis <dtd@world.std.com>
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G=F3cza Zolt=E1n wrote:
> I wonder if you could make any comments whether digital signatures are
> really NOT used worldwide as the paper states! Unfortunately I could not
> find any research or survey. Any reference would be greatly appreciated.
i have one potent, anecdotal data point: a friend of
mine is a 3-letter executive at one of the older/bigger
PKI vendors. he surprised me in a recent conversation,
by mentioning that essentially none of his company's
customers are using PKI for signatures. actually, he
may have said, "_no-one_ is using PKI for signatures."
he says that practically all of the certs are being
used for negotiating symmetric session-keys.
- don davis, boston
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